S 1253
A.D. 712. Forthhere, bishop (of Sherborne), to Ealdberht,a bbot (of Glastonbury); grant of 1 hide (cassatus) by the river Axe, near Bleadney, Somerset. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 134v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 150r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 11 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 31)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 838 ex MS 2; K 63 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 47 (no. 83); B 128 ex K and MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 25; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 363 (no. 640) ex MS 1.
Comments: Robinson 1921, p. 34 n. 1, apparently genuine; Finberg, ECW, no. 376, authentic, indiction points to 718; Cox 1976, pp. 17, 43, on place-names; Scott 1981, pp. 94, 198 n. 88; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 34-6, abbreviated text of authentic charter; Costen 1992, p. 38, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 31, 35, 38, on MS sources, pp. 62-3, 157-8, 165-6, on estate and boundary marks.
Carta Fortere episcopi facta abbati Aldberto de Bledeneye . Ego Fortere, famulus famulorum Dei , pro redemptione animæ meæ unum cassatum dedi Aldberto abbati quæ scita est juxta fluvium Aesce, ad portam quæ dicitur Bledenithe, ad insulam parvam et ad ecclesiam beati Martini confessoris , in propriam substanciam . Habendum donandumque cuicumque voluerit. Qui haunc cartam infringere temptaverit sciat seipsum a communione sanctorum separatum et ab omnipotenti Deo .
+ Ego Fortere consensi et subscripsi .
Acta est autem hec donatio anno . dcc . xii . indictione prima .