S 1299
A.D. 962. Oswald, bishop, to Æthelm; lease, for two [? recte three] lives, of 2.5 hides at Elmstree in Tetbury, Gloucs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 59r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 125-6; K 494; B 1086; Robertson, Charters, no. 34 (pp. 62-5), with translation.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, pp. 318-20; Finberg, ECWM, no. 106, authentic; King 1996, pp. 106-7, 116 n. 107.
Notes: A rubric names Ælfstan and Wulfric as second and third heirs.
In the right margin: Æþelmodestreow Æþelme 7 Ælfstane 7 Wulfrice.
Px Ic Oswald þurh Godes gyfe bisceop mid geþafunge 7 leafe Eadgares Angulcyniges 7 Ælferes Myrcna heretogan 7 þæs heoredes æt Weogernaceastre landes sumne dæl þæt i þridde hid þe fram cuðum mannum Æþelmodestreow is gehaten sumum men þam is Æþelm nama mid eallum þingum þe þærto belimpað . freolice his dæg forgeaf 7 æfter his dæge 'anum' yrfeweardum 7 æfter heora forðsiðe to þære halgan stowe into Weogernaceastre þam bisceope to brice. Sit autem terra ista libera omni regi nisi Ecclesiastici censi. Ðonne is ealles þæs landes þridde healf hid þe Oswald bisceop bocað Æþelme . mid his hlafordes leafe þriora manna dæg on þa gerad wyrce þæt he wyrce þæt þæt land si unforwor'h't into þære halgan stowe.
Anno dominicE incarnationis .dcccclxii. Scripta . hæc carta his testibus consentientibus quorum inferius nomina notantur.
+ Ego Wulfric prb'.
+ Ego Ælfric prb't.
+ Ego Ælfred cl'..
+ Ego Eadgar diac'.
+ Ego Wulfhun . cl'..
+ Ego Cyneþen cl'..
+ Ego Byrhstan cl'..