S 1226
A.D. 1043. Leofric, comes of Chester, founds Coventry Abbey; grant of land at Coventry, Honington, Kings Newnham, Chadshunt, Bishops Itchington, Ufton, Southam, Grandborough, Birdingbury, Marston in Wolston, Priors Hardwick, Wasperton, Chesterton, Snohham, Ryton, Walsgrave on Sowe, Long Marston, Warwicks.; Salwarpe, Worcs.; Eaton, Ches.; Kilsby and Winwick, Northants.; Burbage, Barwell, Scraptoft and Packington, Leics. Latin.
Archive: Coventry
MSS: 1. BL Add. 32100, 9v (s. xvi)
2. BL Add. 32100, 70rv (s. xvi)
3. BL Add. 32100, 114r (s. xvi)
4. BL Cotton Cleop. C. iii, 78v (s. xvi)
5. BL Lansdowne 400, 47rv (s. xvii)
6. PRO E 164/21, 75r (s. xv)
7. PRO Ch.R. 51 Hen. III, m. 8
8. PRO Ch.R. 19 Edw. II, m. 3
9. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 78rv (s. xvii)
10. Bodleian, Dodsworth 65, 21rv (s. xvii)
11. Bodleian, Dodsworth 66, 137rv (s. xvii)
12. Stratford upon Avon, Shakespeare Birthplace Library, 'Gregory Leiger-Book', pp. 19-20 (s. xiv)
13. [Copy of Inspeximus of 51 Hen. III, formerly Phillipps MS 27963, sold Sothebys 13 April 1981]
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 303 ex MS 6; K 939 ex MSS 5, 6; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 190-1 (no. 2); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 79; Lancaster 1954, p. 140.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, p. 112; Harmer, Writs, p. 215; Lancaster 1954, spurious; Oleson 1955, spurious; Davis 1971, pp. 539-45, forged c. 1145 x 1154; Finberg, ECWM, no. 159 (pp. 69, 129), spurious; HRH, p. 234, spurious, subscriptions are few but probably consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 22 (pp. 64, 71, 87, 129), spurious; Hooke 1990, pp. 332-3; Brandt 1994, p. 38, spurious.