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This marriage agreement provided the wife with money, land, farm
animals and farm laborers; it also names sureties, the survivor of
whom would receive all this property:
"Here is declared in this document the agreement which Godwine
made with Brihtric when he wooed his daughter. In the first place
he gave her a pound's weight of gold, to induce her to accept his
suit, and he granted her the estate at Street with all that
belongs to it, and 150 acres at Burmarsh and in addition 30 oxen
and 20 cows and 10 horses and 10 slaves.
This agreement was made at Kingston before King Cnut, with the
cognizance of Archbishop Lyfing and the community at Christchurch,
and Abbot AElfmaer and the community at St. Augustine's, and the
sheriff AEthelwine and Sired the old and Godwine, Wulfheah's son,
and AElfsige cild and Eadmaer of Burham and Godwine, Wulfstan's
son, and Carl, the King's cniht. And when the maiden was brought
from Brightling AElfgar, Sired's son, and Frerth, the priest of
Forlstone, and the priests Leofwine and Wulfsige from Dover, and
Edred, Eadhelm's son, and Leofwine, Waerhelm's son, and Cenwold
rust and Leofwine, son of Godwine of Horton, and Leofwine the Red
and Godwine, Eadgifu's son, and Leofsunu his brother acted as
security for all this. And whichever of them lives the longer
shall succeed to all the property both in land and everything else
which I have given them.
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