MS. Ch. Suffolk 1

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Grant; Bury St Edmunds, etc.; 1121-48

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Language(s): Latin

WESTLEY and FORNHAM. Anselm, the abbot of Bury St Edmunds (St Edmund), grants to Leo and his heirs one toft in the town of Bury St Edmunds (St Edmund), which Holdoger bought of the widow Godgiva and left at his death to Anselm, the land belonging to Hernegrida, etc., and land at Westley of the hall of Fornham (Fornhame) paying annually 4s. to the provost of Fornham (Fornhem); land formerly wood at Chevington (Ceventune). [Anselm, abbot, 1121-48.] [A remarkably fine, perfect and long charter, with many particulars omitted above.] Witnessed, Talebot the prior with all the convent, and 35 others!

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Form: sheet
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Record Sources

W. H. Turner and H. O. Coxe, Calendar of charters and rolls preserved in the Bodleian library (Oxford, 1878) [annotated copy, Bodleian Library R.Ref.741], 537 [Google Books]

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Bibliography

    Feudal Documents from the Abbey of Bury St. Edmunds, ed. D. C. Douglas (1932), no. 121
    Rodney M. Thomson, The Archives of the Abbey of Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk Records Society 21 (1980), no. 35

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