S 1289
A.D. 922. Wilfrid, bishop, to the community at Worcester; grant of land at Clifford Chambers, Warwicks. English with bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. BL Harley 4660, 8r (s. xvii; ex 1)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 174-5 ex MS 1, cf. pp. 168-9; K 1097; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 592-3 (no. 26); B 636; Robertson, Charters, no. 21 (pp. 42-5), with translation.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 299, the bounds are of neighbouring parish of Milcote; PN Gloucs., i. 2, 11, 239-40, 260; Finberg, ECWM, p. 236; Hart, ECNE, no. 52, authentic; Pelteret 1995, p. 167; Bassett 1996, p. 162 n. 28.
Disponente regi regum cuncta cæli secreta nec non quæ sub cæli culmine apud homines notantur miro ordine gubernante cujus incarnationis humanæ anno . dccccxxii . indictione x hæc donatio quæ in ista cartula saxonicis sermonibus apparet confirmata ac donata erat. In usses dryhtnes noman hælendes Cristes . Ic Wilfrið biscop cyðu minum æfterfylgendum ðæt ic sylle sumne dæl londes æt Clifforda higen to hiora biode æt Weogernaceastre on ece erfeweardnesse mid monnum 7 mid allum þæm nytnessum ge on fixnoðum ge on medwum ðe ðærto belympað on ðæt gerad þæt min gemynd for Gode mid him þy fæstlicor sio 7 hio ælce gere of ðæm londe ec be sumum dælæ gemyndgien ða tide mines forðsiðes mid ðæm nytnessum ðe hio on ðæm londe begeten . 7 nu we halgsiað ðurh Godes mildhiortnesse alle ure æfterfylgend godcundra hada 7 weorldcundra þæt þios ure sylene staðulfæstlice ðurhwunian mote 7 gif ænges hades mon sio ure æfterfylgendra swa wemne wircað þæt ðæs ure sylene on ængum wisum gewemman oððe gewanian wille wite he hine riht ageldendne beforan Gode in ðæm forhtigendlican domes dæge butan he hit ær Gode 7 monnum wyrðlice gebete . þisses londes siond twa hida binnan ðissum gemærum ærust up of Sture suð onlong dic[es] on ðone herpað onlong herpaðes to Westtunniga gemære swa onlong gemæres norð þæt in Afene, up onlong Afene, eft on Sture in ða dic.
In the year 922 of the incarnation of the King of kings, who governs all the secret things of heaven and likewise controls in marvellous order those which are recorded among men under the dome of heaven, and in the tenth Indiction, this grant which appears in this charter in the Saxon speech was confirmed and given. In the name of our Lord the Saviour Christ, I, Bishop Wilfrith, inform my successors that I grant a certain piece of land at Clifford to the refectory of the community at Worcester, as a perpetual inheritance, with its men and with all the profits from fisheries and meadows which belong to it, on condition that the remembrance of me in the sight of God be the more steadfastly observed among them. And every year also, by means of the estate, they shall commemorate to a certain extent the anniversary of my death with the profits which they obtain from the estate. And now we entreat all our successors, both ecclesiastics and laymen, by the mercy of God, that this our gift may steadfastly endure, and if there be a man of any rank among our successors who acts so vilely as to impair or diminish this our grant in any way, he shall find that he must render account for it before God on the terrible Day of Judgment, unless he has duly made amends for it both to God and men.
There are two hides of this land within the following boundaries. First up from the Stour south along the dyke to the highway, along the highway to the Weston boundary, then along the boundary north as far as the Avon, up along the Avon back to the Stour to the dyke.