'The Crawford Charters' in Old English and Latin; 10th-15th centuries, with later transcripts and translations

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Title

'The Crawford Charters' in Old English and Latin; 10th-15th centuries, with later transcripts and translations

Shelfmark

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2

Place of origin

England

Date

10th century, late (grant of 998, possibly an original)

12th century (copy of a grant of 969)

c. 1150

15th century

11th century, first half (copy of a will of 1008 × 1012]

11th century, late, or 12th century, early (copy of a grant of 1023)

11th century, second half (copy of a grant of 739)

11th century, middle

17th century, late

1007, probably an original

[1107 × 1137, perhaps 1133 × 1136]

10th century, late, or 11th century, early (copy of grants of 930 and c. 1018)

11th century (copy of a will of 998)

10th century, middle (grant of 957, possibly an original)

18th century

10th century, late (grant of 981 × 988, possibly an original)

Language

Latin

Old English (ca. 450-1100)

Middle English (1100-1500)

English

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item I (fol. 5)

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].

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item IIa (fol. 8)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item IIb (fol. 9)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item III (fol. 14)

(recto) 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].

(verso) 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].

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item IV (fol. 17)

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]

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item V (fol. 20)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item VI (fol. 23)

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].

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item VII (fol. 26)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item VIII (fol. 29)

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].

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item IX (fol. 34)

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]

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item X (fol. 37)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XI (fol. 38)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XII (fol. 41)

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]

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XIII (fol. 42)

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]

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XIV (fol. 45)

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].

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XV (fol. 48)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XVI (fol. 51)

Transcript of XII above.

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XVII (fols. 54-5)

Translation of XII above into Latin

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XVIII (fol. 56)

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.

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XIX (fol. 59)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XX (fol. 60)

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

MS. Eng. hist. a. 2, item XXI (fol. 65)

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

Acquisition

Purchased by the Bodleian from Quaritch, 14 March 1891. The following items were removed from the volume and rehoused: 51 later English charters, of which 36 related to Surrey and ranged from c. 1230 to 1537; MS. Gr. liturg. c. 2 [=SC 31373], MS. Lat. bib. c. 1 [SC 31375], MS. Lat. liturg. d. 3 [SC 31398], MS. Lat. class. d. 7 [SC 31376], MS. Lat. th. c. 3 [SC 31382], MS. Lat. misc. c. 7 [SC 31380], MS. Eng. bib. c. 2 [SC 31345]. MS. Eng. poet. f. 1 [SC 31360], MS. Fr. b. 1 [SC 31363], and MS. Top. Norf. b. 1 [SC 31413]

Provenance

A collection of charters and fragments (several rehoused at the Bodleian under different shelfmarks) perhaps assembled by Robert Austen F. S. A. of Shalford Hall, Surrey (see item IV); at least two items belonged to Thomas Martin of Palgrave (item XXI and MS. Eng. Bib. c. 2, formerly part of the present collection); at least one to Peter le Neve (item XII), one to Charles Mason (item V) and one to Francis Blomefield (item IX). See The Crawford collection of early charters and documents now in the Bodleian library, ed. Arthur S. Napier and William Henry Stevenson (1895), pp. vi-vii (using a different system of numbering for the documents).

W. H. Crawford of Lakelands: his sale, Sotheby's, 14 March 1891, no. 695, sold to Quaritch.

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