Will of Wulfgeat of Donington, Shropshire, including bequests of land at Tardebigge, Worcestershire, as burial-fee (possibly to Donington church); also land at Kilsall, in Shropshire, Evenlode in Gloucestershire, and at Roden, Shropshire, to his wife; land at Donington and Thornbury, Herefordshi...
Contents: The Westminster Tournament Challenge, an invitation to the Westminster Tournament, the joust held in honour of the birth of a son, Prince Henry, to Henry VIII (r. 1509-1547) and Catherine of Aragon (b. 1485, d. 1536) on New Year's Day, 1511. The document concludes with the signatur...
Will of Æthelflæd, including a bequest of land at Lambourn, Cholsey and Reading, Berkshire, to the king; at Damerham, Hampshire, to Glastonbury; at Hamme to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Woodham, Essex, to Ealdorman Brihtnoth and her sister for life, with reversion to St Mary’s, Barking; at Hadh...
The community at Worcester leases, for three years, land at Luddington, Warwickshire, to Fulder, in return for the three pounds that he had lent; probably from the first half of the 11th century (Sawyer, no. 1421). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Ludinton’.
Grant of Bishop Æscwig of Dorchester (975×979–1002) to Ælfstan
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Bishop Æscwig of Dorchester grants five hides (mansae) at Cuxham, Oxfordshire to his man Ælfstan; dated 995 (for 994), with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 1379). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Æthelredus rex’, ‘Cuceshamme’, and ‘Ælfstano’.
Grant of King Edward the Confessor (d. 1042–1066) to Old Minster, Winchester
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King Edward grants land at Bransbury, Hampshire, and at Forde and Hertone saci to Old Minster, Winchester; Latin.; dated 1046, spurious (Sawyer, no. 1016). Endorsed in a 15th century hand, ‘Brandesbury‘, and in a 16th-century hand.
