S 1227
? A.D. 1046 x 1062. Wilburh, widow, to Worcester minster; grant, after her death, of 1 hide (mansa) at Shurnock in Feckenham, Worcs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 151v-152r (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 336-7; K 951; B 1006; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 84.
Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 112-13, on bounds; Ker 1948, pp. 59, 67-8, one of thirteen charters, 'as a group untrustworthy'; Finberg, ECWM, no. 358, authentic, undated, but according to Hearne (Heming, p. 517) the gift was made or took effect in the time of Bishop Ealdred; Hooke 1990, pp. 348-50, on bounds.
De sciran ac .
Px Omnis usiæ1 opifici sit laus Deo patri ejusque unigenito cum sancto spiritu qui genus humanum per gustum prohibiti fructus perditum crucis patibulo redemit . cujus benignissimæ miserationis opere creati . mortis secundæ poenam quæ primi parentis incuria contigit . evadere multimodis speramus . Ipsius itaque annuente clementia ego . Wihburhga vidua concedo totius boni retributori . et piissimæ ac beatissimæ ejus genitrici Mariæ mansam videlicet unam in villa quæ nuncupatur . Sciran ac . Ita scilicet ut post finem meum sit illa prenominata mansa ad remedium animæ meæ pro conditione et recordatione sepulturæ corporis mei monasterio Wigornensi . et fratribus ibi Deo servientibus in possessione hereditatis perpetuæ deputata . Et qui in aliqua fraude vel discrepatione per diabolicam gastrimariam istud frangere aut minuere temptaverit . sciat se cum rapacibus et peccatoribus esse conjunctum . et sine ullo honore in æterna dampnatione cum diabulo dampnatum et sociis ejus . nisi hic Deo et hominibus cum digna satisfactione emendaverit .
Ðis is þæt landgemære to sciren ac . Ærest of wines brycge ondlang lecc to þæs preostes mædwe into feccan ham . onlang þæs broces þæt hit cymeþ to ipples berhge 7 swa eal abutan þæt hit cymð eft in þone ilcan brocc . 7 swa æfter ðam broce to wahgenes gemære . of wahgenes gemære þæt hit cyme to þære pirian . '7 of þære pirian' to þam walle þe is in ðam holan wege . 7 of þam walle wahge'nes ge'mæres eft into wines brycge .
1 Birch notes Greek [ousias], which Liddell & Scott define as either one's own property or being, existence