Source: CharterS1519

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Will of Ketel, including bequests of land at Sisted, Essex, to Christ Church, Canterbury; at Harling, Norfolk, to Archbishop Stigand; the reversion of land at Great Melton, Norfolk, to St Benedict's at Holme and at Thorpe near Fundenhall, Norfolk, to Bury St Edmund's, after the deaths of Ketel and his uncle, Wulfric; land at Ketteringham, Norfolk, to his sister Bote, if she outlive him (if not, he is to have the land at Somerledetone [Somerton or Somerleyton, Suffolk]); land at Walsingham in East Carlton, Norfolk, to his sister Gode, if she outlive him (if not, he is to have the land at Preston, Suffolk); land at Hainford, Norfolk, and Coggeshall, Essex, to his brother Godric, and also land at Strattune (? Stratton Strawless, Norfolk), on payment of two pounds to Ælwig, Ketel's servant; the reversion of land at Onehouse, Suffolk, to Bury St Edmunds, after the deaths of Ketel and his stepdaughter, Ælfgifu; the half estate at Moran, Norfolk, to Earl Harold; land at Frating, Essex, according to an agreement made by (? Earl Harold) and Archbishop Stigand; land at Rashford, Suffolk, to Ælfric, his priest and kinsman.

Charter information
Sawyer 1519
Birch ---
Kemble 1339
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Bury St Edmunds
Source Information
Scholarly Source Dating 1052 x 1066

Notes

Douglas 1932, pp. cxii-xv; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 201-4; John 1960, p. 17 n. 1; Hart, ECEE, no. 118 (pp. 77, 95), authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 66, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 509, cited; Brooks 1978, pp. 87-91, on heriot; Reynolds 1994, p. 338 n. 72; Pelteret 1995, pp. 123-4, 130; Faith 1997, p. 63, cited; cf. S 1535, the will of Ketel's mother, Wulfgyth.