| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/70 |
| Title | Grant |
| PreviousNumbers | XXVII (early medieval); VIII (early medieval); P 124 (Norris); Red Book 22 (20th c) |
| Date | [1042x1043] |
| Description | From: Thurstan
To: Canterbury Cathedral Priory
Of land at Wimbish ('wimbise') [Essex] for his soul and the souls of Leofwaru [probably Thurstan's mother] and Æthelgyth [Thurstan's wife]. Granted for the sustenance of the community after his and Æthelgyth's death. With the annual payment of £1 during their lives. The priory should pay to St Augustine's Abbey £12 or 2 hides. Document made in triplicate, with copies kept by the cathedral priory, the abbey and the testators. No date. [Date: see Whitelock, from whence supplied details. Dated by witness list.]
Witnesses: Edward the Confessor, king of England; Ælfgifu, wife of King Cnut; Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury; Godwin, earl; Leofric, earl; Ælfweard, bishop of London; Ælfwine, bishop of Winchester; Stigand, priest; Eadwold, priest; Leofcild, sheriff; Osulf Fila; Ufic, son of Wulfred; Ælfwine son of Wulfred; Ælfric, son of Wihtgar; the thegns of Essex
Endorsed with description in 12th cent hand. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m, chirograph, polled at foot |
| Language | Old English |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Registered version: in Latin, CCA-DCc-Register/P, ff26v-27r
Other versions listed in Sawyer, as below
Thurstan's will, Transcribed and translated in Whitelock, as below, pp80-5 |
| Publication Note | Calendared in P H Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, an annotated list and bibliography (London, Royal Historical Society, 1968), pp428-9, as no 1530 .
Transcribed with translation and facsimile in Lieut-Gen J Camerson, with translations by W Basevi Sanders, Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, part i (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, 1878), as no 25 .
Transcribed and discussed in N P Brooks and S E Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury (British Academy, Oxford, 2013), pp1155-9, as no 166 .
Transcribed and translated in D Whitelock, Anglo-Saxon Wills (Cambridge, 1930), pp78-9 .
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, pp456, 459 |