Event: Advice/counsel, Grant and Gift, Property-exchanging, Writ-issuing/sending

Scholarly Info
Description	King William 1 informs Swein 9 the sheriff and all his French and English faithful men and officials that he has granted to the abbey of Westminster the manor of Feering, Essex, with the three houses in Colchester which are subject to it. All is to be held as Earl Harold 3 held it on the day on which King Edward 15 was alive and dead and as William 1 afterwards held it. The grant is made on the advice of William 1’s barons on account of an agreement and exchange involving Windsor.
Year	1066 x 1086

Agent: William 1 (the Bastard or the Conqueror, king of England, 1066-1087)
Recipient: Swein 9 (Sheriff of Essex; son of Robert fitzWimarc, fl. 1070 x 1075)
Witness: Lanfranc 1 (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1070-89)
Witness: Odo 3 (Bishop of Bayeux; Earl of Kent, d. 1097)
Witness: Geoffrey 2 (de Montbray, d. 1093, bishop of Coutances)
Witness: Robert 9 (Count of Mortain; half-brother of William 1, d. 1095) : NB possible identification, could be: Robert, count of Eu, or Robert, count of Meulan.
Witness: Roger 4 (de Montgomery, earl of Shrewsbury, d. 1094)

Event: Advice/counsel, Grant and Gift, Property-exchanging, Writ-issuing/sendingBates317 - writ of William 1 in favour of Westminster, St Peter's