The Church of St Felicity, Walton (Suffolk)

William II confirms Roger Bigot’s gift of the Church of St Felicity, Walton (Suffolk), to St Andrew’s, Rochester. Translation from Latin of Textus Roffensis, folio 182r-182v by Jacob Scott (pending review).

St Felicity’s later became a cell of Rochester, and may have housed a small collection of books (Richards, Texts and Their Traditions, p. 58).

Transcription

182r (select folio number to open facsimile)

De Waletuna; WILLELMVS rex anglorum, episcopo de
suthfulca, et uicecomiti, et aliis
baronibus suis francigenis et anglis,

182v

salutem. Sciatis me concessisse et confirmas-
se donum Rogerii bigot quod dedit ęcclesię
sancti andreę de rouecestra, scilicet ęcclesiam
sancti felicis de waletuna, cum decimis et omnibus
aliis rebus quę ad illam pertinent, testimonio
eudonis dapiferi, apud wentoniam.

Translation

Concerning Walton:

William, King of the English, to the bishop of Suffolk, and the sheriff, and my other French and English barons, greetings. Know that I have granted and confirmed the gift of Roger Bigot, which he gave to the church of Saint Andrew of Rochester, namely, the Church of Saint Felicity of Walton, with tithes and all other things which pertain to it, by the testimony of Eudon the servant, at Wenton.