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Writ of King Edward declaring that Abbot Ufi is to be entitled to the monastery at Bury St Edmunds and to everything pertaining thereto, and that the monastery is to retain unaltered the freedom granted to it by Cnut and Harthacnut.

Charter information
Sawyer 1068
Birch ---
Kemble 868
British Academy ---
Source Used Harmer, Writs, no. 8
Archive(s) Bury St Edmunds
Source Information
Language Latin and Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 1042 x 1043

Notes

Harmer, Writs, pp. 138-45, 433-5, authentic except perhaps for the last sentence; Hart, ECEE, no. 95, authentic.

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