S 1495
s. x/xi. Æthelflæd to St Paul's minster, London; bequest of land at Laver, Essex, and at Cockhampstead, Herts. English.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: London, St Paul's, D. & C., Liber B, 20v (s. xiii; lost)
Printed: Mon. Angl., iii. 303; Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 187; Dugdale, St Paul's (2nd edn), Appendix, p. 11; K 972; Thorpe, pp. 542-3, with translation; Whitelock, Wills, no. 22 (p. 66), with translation, p. 67.
Comments: Whitelock, Wills, pp. 175-6, authentic, witnesses impossible, but probably supplied by a copyist; Whitelock 1943, p. 122, on witness-list; Whitelock et al. 1968, p. 19 n. 1, spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 37, authentic basis; HRH, p. 236, ? c. 1004 x 1014, probably basically genuine, though subscriptions are inconsistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 178, citing Whitelock, spurious; Keynes 1991, p. 80 n. 83, cited, on testatrix; cf. S 908.
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