Source: CharterS1240

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Description

Writ of Queen Edith declaring that Bishop Giso is to have the land at Milverton, Somerset, as fully and completely as she herself possessed it.

Charter information
Sawyer 1240
Birch ---
Kemble 917
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Wells
Source Information
Scholarly Source Dating 1061 x 1066

Notes

Harmer, Writs, pp. 274, 490, authenticity reasonably certain; Finberg, ECW, no. 541, authentic; Crosby 1994, pp. 48-50, on background; Kennedy 1995, p. 156 n. 99, cited with reference to legal background; Keynes 1997, pp. 238-9, 257, may be dated 1065 x 1066, discusses background.