MS. Eng. hist. a. 2

King Aethelheard to Bishop Forthhere; grant of 20 hides at Crediton (Creedy land), Devon, for the foundation of Crediton monastery. 739, 4 Id. April (= April 10) [Manuscript: s. xi 2].

Boundaries of Creedy land, Devon, for the foundation of Crediton monastery. [mid 11th century] [Manuscript: s. xi med].

Boundaries of Creedy land, Devon, for the foundation of Crediton monastery. [15th century] [Manuscript: s. xv].

King Athelstan to Eadulf, Bishop [of Crediton] and the monastery of Crediton; grant of 3 hides at Sandford near Crediton, Devon. 930, III Kal. Maii (= April 29) [Manuscript: s x/xi].

Eadnoth, Bishop [of Crediton], to Beorhtnoth; mortgage of a yardland by the river Creedy, Devon (? Creedy Barton in Newton St Cyres). [c. 1018] [Manuscript: s x/xi].

King Edgar to Westminster Abbey [St Peter's, Thorney], confirmation, reciting a bull of Pope John [Pope John XIII], of liberties and of land at Ham (in East Ham), Wennington, Essex; Morden, Surrey; Fanton (Hall) in North Benfleet, Essex; Aldenham, Herts.; Bleccenham and Lothereslege (both lost, in Hendon), Middx; Holwell, Datchworth and Watton-at-Stone, Herts.; Chollington in Eastbourne, Sussex; Staines, with Teddington, Halliford, Feltham and Ashford, Middlesex. 969, Id. Maii (= May 15) [Manuscript: 12th century]

King Eadwig to Archbishop Oda [of Canterbury]; grant of 40 hides at Ely ('Helig'). 957, VII Id. Maii (= May 9) [Manuscript: s x med].

King Ethelred to Ealdorman Leofwine; grant of 7 1/2 hides of land, forfeited by Wistan for murder, at Southam (3 hides), Ladbroke and Radbourne (4 1/2 hides), Warwicks. 998 [Manuscript: s. x ex].

King Ethelred to St Albans Abbey; grant of land at Norton, 'Rodanhangra' and Oxhey, Herts., originally granted to the abbey by King Offa but subsequently lost, and later forfeited to King Ethelred by Ealdorman Leofsige, and purchased for St Albans by Archbishop Aelfric and Abbot Leofric. 1007

King Cnut to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of the port of Sandwich. (Fol. 30 is an 18th-century Latin translation.) 1023 [Manuscript: s. xi/xii].

Bartholomew de Glanville; confirmation of his father's grants to the priory of Bromholm, Norfolk, listing the lands of Stanard, the priest of Keswick, with the church, the churches of Broomholm, Dilham, and Paston, and tithes of several neighbouring estates (see 'Houses of Cluniac monks: The priory of Bromholm', in A History of the County of Norfolk: Volume 2, ed. William Page (London, 1906), pp. 359-363). [c. 1150]

William [de Albini], earl of Chichester to the church of Burton Lazars; grant of 120 acres in Wymondham, Norfolk. [c. 1150]

Nigel de Moubrai to the canons of St Mary's, Southwark; grant of an orchard,etc., at Banstead, Surrey. [c. 1150]

Will of Leofwine, son of Wulfstan, including bequests of land at Kelvedon and Markshall, Essex, to Westminster Abbey [St Peter's Westminster], and at Purleigh, Essex, partly to God's servants at Notley, Essex, and partly to Leofwaru, his aunt; and at Barling, Essex, to Wulfstan, bishop (of London). 998, XVII Kal. Maii (= April 15) [manuscript: 11th century]

Item XVI (fol. 51) is an 18th-century (?) copy and item XVII (fols. 55-54) is an 17th-century (?) Latin translation.)

Will of Alfwold, Bishop [of Crediton], including bequests of land at Sandford, Devon, to the monastery at Crediton and to Godric. [1008 × 1012] [manuscript: 11th century, first half]

Archbishop [Dunstan] to King Ethelred; letter concerning belonging to the diocese of Cornwall including Pawton in St Breock, 'Cællwic' (tentatively identified as Callington), and Lawhitton, Cornwall. [981 × 988] [Manuscript: s. x ex].

William of Warelwast, Bishop of Exeter; confirmation to the canons of Crediton of their liberties. [1107 × 1137]

Transcript of XII above.

Translation of XII above into Latin

18th-century English translation of Sawyer 1487, the will (975 × 1016) of Ælfhelm (Polga), including bequests of land at Wratting, Cambs., to Ely Abbey; at Brickendon, Herts., to Westminster Abbey; at Whepstead, Suffolk, and Walton (perhaps near Felixstowe, Suffolk), to his son Ælfgar; and at Baddow and Burstead, Essex, at Stratford, (probably Stratford St Mary, Suffolk), at Enhale and Wilbraham, Cambs., at Rayne, Essex, at Carlton, Cambs., and at Gestingthorpe, Essex, to his wife; at Gestingthorpe, Essex, to Godric and Ælfhelm's daughter; at Conington, Cambs., to his wife and daughter, and to Æthelric, Ælfwold and Osmær; also at Cockayne Hatley and Potton, Beds., to Ælfmær, Ælfstan and Osgar; at Littlebury (near Saffron Walden), Essex, to Leofsige, and at Great Staughton, Hunts., to Leofsige and his wife; also at Troston, Suffolk, to his three brothers and Ælfwold; at Ickleton, Cambs., and Mawyrthe to Ælfhelm; and at Barnham (probably Suffolk), to Wulfmær. Not printed by Napier and Stevenson.

Thomas son of Hugh de Horton. Grant to St. Mary's, Woodkirk, a cell of St. Oswald's, Nostell [co. York]. [c. 1150]

B. de Balliol to St Mary's Abbey, York; grant of Gainford church and the chapel of Barnard's Castle, Durham. [c. 1150]

Ralph Lestrange to St Katherine's Blackburgh; grant of land in Wormegay, Norfolk. [c. 1150]