S 1298
A.D. 962. Oswald, bishop, to Ælfwold, minister; lease, for his life and that of his mother, of 3 hides (cassatae) at Cungle (on the river Coln, Gloucs.), with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. The land was previously held by Ealhthryth, matrona. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Somers Ch. 12 (lost)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 101r (s. xi1)
Printed: Smith, Bede, p. 773 ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 215 ex MS 2; K 496 ex MS 2; B 1091 ex Smith and MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 124.
Comments: Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, no. 12, subscriptions recently cut off, nefaria manu; Finberg, ECWM, no. 105, authentic, suggests Ablington, Gloucs., as a possible identification; Bullough 1996, p. 11, on beneficiary; King 1996, pp. 104, 107 n. 45; Wareham 1996, p. 60.
Cungle .
+ Ego Oswald . largo Christi carismate præsul dicatus . Dominicæ incarnationis anno dcccc . lxii . annuente rege Anglorum Eadgaro . ejusque utriusque ordinis optimatibus . quandam ruris particulam . iii . videlicet cassatas quos olim quædam possidebat matrona nomine Alhðryð . in loco qui celebri a solicolis nuncupatur . Cungle . vocabulo cuidam regis ministro nomine Alfwold . perpetualiter concedo ut ipse cum omnibus utensilibus eam quamdiu vixerit habeat et post obitum ejus mater si superstes fuerit eandem recipiat . Sin alias post obitum ipsius ad usum pontificis in Wigorna ceastre redeat inmunis . Aecclesiæ vero munus et sepultura præsulis in Weogorna ceastre dicioni deveniat . Alias plena glorietur libertate excepta expeditione rata pontis arcisve constructione . Si quis autem hanc nostram donationem in aliud quam constituimus transferre voluerit privatus consortio sanctæ Dei aecclesiæ aeternis barathri incendiis lugubris jugiter cum Juda Christi proditore ejusque complicibus puniatur . si non satisfactione emendaverit congrua quod contra nostrum deliquid decretum .