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Blewbury

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 December 2009

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667 Gift in free alms by Empress Matilda, daughter of King Henry and lady of the English, to Reading Abbey, for the souls of King Henry her father, Queen Matilda her mother and her ancestors, and for the love and lawful service shown to her by Brian fitz Count, of Blewbury, to be held as well and freely and with all liberties as her father held it Testibus: Roberto comite Gloec(estrie), et Reginaldo comite Cornubie, et Rogero comite Heref(ordie), et Unfrido de Buh(un) dapifero, et Willelmo filio Alani, et losco de Dinan, et Walkelino Maminot, et Willelmo Paganell(o), et Willelmo filio Hamonis, Hugone filio Ricardi, et Riulf(o) de Sessun. Apud Divis(as).

[1144 x 47; ? 1144]

Original charters: BL Add. Chs. 19579 and 19577

Af 15r–v; Bf 19V

Pd. Arch. Journ., xx. 290; Warner and Ellis, i. no. 22 (with facsimile); Journ. B.A.A., xxxi. 394; Regesta, iii. 259 (no. 703); (cal.) Hurry, Reading Abbey, 162

Type
Berkshire Documents
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1987

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page 6 note a B ends

page 6 note b Ioscio Add. Ch. 19577 and A

page 6 note c Om. in Add. Ch. 19577 and A

page 6 note 1. 19579 may possibly be genuine, but 19577 is a pretended original probably copied from it (see Regesta, iii, no. 703, and cf, ibid., no. 695, note on date). A and B have one text only, but each notes a second copy-Item alia carta de eodem (A); Hec duplex est

page 6 note a B ends

page 7 note a B, C end

page 7 note b For expansion, see Holtzmann, Papsturkunden, i. 253

page 7 note a B, C end

page 8 note a a Om. in B, but included in B rubric: de Bleobir'

page 8 note b potuerint B

page 8 note c B ends

page 9 note a Godfr' C

page 9 note b Cornhull' C

page 9 note c Bellet' C

page 9 note d Stamford' C

page 9 note e Bleobur' C

page 9 note f Insert de Radyng' C

page 9 note g Stamf' C

page 9 note h Bleobury C

page 9 note i i Om. in C

page 9 note a Bleoburi B, Bleobir' C

page 9 note b abbathia C

page 9 note c Pascha B, C

page 9 note d B ends with T', C ends

page 10 note a Herb' C

page 10 note b Folyot' C

page 10 note 1. See no. 679.

page 10 note a Folyot' C

page 10 note b Supplied, as in the full text of nos. 678, 1270 (q.v.)

page 11 note a Grave B, C

page 11 note b B ends with T', C ends

page 11 note a Bleobury C

page 12 note a Folyot C

page 12 note b Bleobur' C

page 13 note a Bassath B, C

page 13 note b Bleobir' B, C

page 13 note c B ends with T', C ends

page 13 note d Sic in Ms, prob. error for Manasero (see note)

page 13 note a Om. in C

page 14 note a Om. in C

page 14 note a Om. in C

page 15 note a Besche C

page 15 note b Radyng'C

page 15 note c Expanded in plural in view of mandamus in last sentence

page 15 note d Bleobur' C

page 15 note e Redyng' C

page 15 note f J' in both texts, but witness was Robert Burnell, chancellor

page 16 note a Reading uncertain

page 16 note b Sic in Ms, but the first plaintiff was called William

page 25 note a Fraunceys C

page 25 note b for this expansion, rather than Agneti, see the later occurrence of her name, p 20, line 12

page 25 note c Bleobur' C

page 25 note d antique C

page 25 note e fu'nt B, fu'int C

page 25 note f inparcare B, inparcar' C

page 25 note g Sic in B, Kyngeswode C; ? rectius Kingesmede

page 25 note h capit in Mss

page 25 note i Michah' B

page 25 note J Michaelis C

page 25 note k solebat B

page 25 note l Supplied

page 25 note m Aylwine C

page 25 note n introducantur B

page 25 note o C ends

page 25 note p plural in Ms

page 25 note q Interlined

page 25 note r superanato in Ms

page 25 note s operare Ms

page 25 note t mersor Ms

page 25 note u Heading added twice in margin in two later hands, the text running on without beginning separate paragraph

page 25 note v quilibet Ms

page 25 note w solid' Mi

page 25 note x servisia/servis' Ms

page 25 note y in repeated in Ms

page 25 note z sokemannor' Ms

page 25 note aa Reading uncertain; Ms has vicec'

page 25 note bb bb Ms has comperi in recordo quod dilecti et fidel' regis R. de Hengham predicti J., R. et J. misit, which is clearly garbled; the corrected version is based on the text of the royal writ which follows immediately in the account

page 26 note cc faciatis Ms

page 26 note dd dd manus nostras Ms

page 26 note ee illo Ms

page 26 note ff existentes Ms

page 26 note gg fuissent Ms

page 26 note hh Ms has here servic' deleted

page 26 note ii Karvannan Ms

page 26 note jj jj Added in later hand

page 26 note kk kk Added in different, poss. later, hand

page 26 note ll ll For expansions, see VCH Berks., iv. 63, 16n., 297

page 26 note mm qualibet Ms

page 26 note nn cingl'm Ms

page 26 note oo pranduu(m) Ms

page 26 note pp operabunt Ms

page 26 note qq qq Added in margin in later hand, the text running on without beginning separate paragraph

page 26 note rr fanac' Ms

page 26 note ss a Ms

page 26 note 1. Lady Stenton (ibid.) read ‘keeper or serjeant’ as ‘serjeant keeper’, but the writ of Edward I quoted in the record confirms the correct reading.

page 26 note 2. Lady Stenton (ibid.) read ‘the vill of’ but see above, textual note aa.

page 26 note a Philipp' C