Item 2a - Charter of King Stephen

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JCMR/Gray 1- . . . 383/Gray 1-10/2a

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Charter of King Stephen

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  • 1149-1150 ("[Given] during the siege of Mapperhall" (Apud Mapertes halam in obsidione), 1149-50. For the date, see appendix A in Nuns and goldsmiths.) (Creation)

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(c 1096-1154)

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Stephen confirms to the church and nuns of St Mary the grant by William Monachus [le Moyne], goldsmith, of 2 virgates of land and 6 acres of pasture and 4 cottars with their holdings, at (Great) Shelford, in free alms, for the soul of Henry (I) and for all God's faithful. Witnesses: William Martell and Rainer de Warenne.

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      Printed in Gray (1898), pp. 74-75; Regesta, III, no. 138; Bishop, Two charters of Stephen, facs. pl. I; discussed in Nuns and goldsmiths, p. 65ff.

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      Caryl S.10 (pt)

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