MS. Eng. hist. a. 2 (fol. 16b)
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Cockayne Hatley, Potton, Wratting, Carlton, Conington, Ickleton, Great and Little Wilbraham, Elm, Great and Little Baddow, Great Burstead, Little Burstead, Rayne, Gestingthorpe, Littlebury, Brickendon, Great Staughton, Whepstead, Walton, Stratford St Mary, Troston, Barnham, 'Mawyrthe' [unidentified]. Will of Ælfhelm (Polga), including bequests of land at Wratting, Cambs., to Ely Abbey; at Brickendon, Herts., to Westminster Abbey; at Whepstead, Suffolk, and Walton (perhaps near Felixstowe, Suffolk), to his son Ælfgar; and at Baddow and Burstead, Essex, at Stratford, (probably Stratford St Mary, Suffolk), at Enhale and Wilbraham, Cambs., at Rayne, Essex, at Carlton, Cambs., and at Gestingthorpe, Essex, to his wife; at Gestingthorpe, Essex, to Godric and Ælfhelm's daughter; at Conington, Cambs., to his wife and daughter, and to Æthelric, Ælfwold and Osmær; also at Cockayne Hatley and Potton, Beds., to Ælfmær, Ælfstan and Osgar; at Littlebury (near Saffron Walden), Essex, to Leofsige, and at Great Staughton, Hunts., to Leofsige and his wife; also at Troston, Suffolk, to his three brothers and Ælfwold; at Ickleton, Cambs., and Mawyrthe to Ælfhelm; and at Barnham (probably Suffolk), to Wulfmær. [975 x 1016] [Manuscript: s. xviii, a translation].
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