Source: CharterS1489

Show associated factoids Show associated events Hide associated persons

Description

Will of Ælfric, bishop (of Elmham), including bequests of land at Worlingworth, Suffolk, and at Hunstanton, Holme, Tichwell and Docking, Norfolk, to Bury St Edmunds; at Grimston, Norfolk, to Leofstan, the dean; and instructions to sell land at Walsingham and Fersfield, Norfolk; also bequests of land at Egmere, Norfolk, part to Ælfwine and part to Ufi, the prior; the mill at Guist, Norfolk, to Edwin, the monk; land at Roydon, Norfolk, to Ælfwig, the priest; and at Moulton (probably Suffolk) to Sibriht; also a messuage in Norwich to St Edmunds and one in London to St Peter's

Charter information
Sawyer 1489
Birch ---
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Bury St Edmunds
Source Information
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 1023 x 1038

Notes

Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Stevenson 1913, p. 115 n. 16, MS 1 a contemporary hand; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 181-4; Hart, ECEE, no. 88 (pp. 65, 82), authentic; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 368, 369, authentic; Councils and Synods, p. 513; Dumville 1993, p. 42 and n. 177, dates 1023 x 1038; Pelteret 1995, p. 122; Campbell 1996, p. 17, probably Ælfric II (d. 1038).

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to 
Wills Whitelock Wills      

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
  Wills     70-3 [no.26]

List of Persons