S 1305
A.D. 963. Oswald, bishop, to Athelstan, his thegn; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides at Thorne in Inkberrow, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric. English with bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 88r-89r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 189-90; K 511 and vol. iii. 463; B 1110; Robertson, Charters, no. 36 (pp. 66-7), with translation; Hooke 1990, p. 262, bounds only.
Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 157-8, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, p. 322; Finberg, ECWM, no. 286, authentic, Hooke 1990, pp. 261-4, on bounds, with map p. 262; Pelteret 1995, p. 309; Dyer 1996, p. 190; King 1996, p. 109 n. 58; Wareham 1996, pp. 55-6, on beneficiary.
+ Mid tyþe 7 mid geþafunge Eadgares cynenges 7 Ælfheres Merna ealdermannes 7 þætæs heorodes æt Wiogornaceastre ic Oswald þurh þa rumgiflan Godes cyste to biscope gehadod sumne dæl landes þæt synd .iii. hida æt Þorndune Æþelstane minum þegne his dæg freoh ælces weoruldcundes þeowetes geuþe buton þreom þingum an is circsceat 7 þæt he mid eallum cræfte twuga on geare æne to mæþe 7 oþre siðe to ripe 7 æfter his dæge twam mannum swylce him gecwemest sy 7 æfter heora forðsiþe þam biscope to bryce into Wiogurnaceastre.
Ðis synd þa landgemæra to Þordune ondlong amman broces þæt hit sticað in pidelan ondlong pidelan þæt hit cymð to oredeshamme of oredeshamme on deorelmes dic of deorelmes dic on incsetena gemære of incsetena gemære in þa stræt of þære stræte in þornhæma dic of þære dic in þæt sic of þam sice þæt hit sticað in ammam broc . 7 xii. æceras on incsetena lande 7 seo wudung on gemænan grafe to Þordune .
Ðonne is ealles þæs landes .iii. hida þe Oswald bisceop bocað Æþelstane his ðegne on þa gerad wyrce þæt he wyrce þæt þæt land seo unforworht into þære halgan stowe.
Anno dominicae incarnationis .dcccc. lxiii. scriptum est . Hec carta his testibus consentientibus quorum inferius nomina notantur.
+ Ego Wulfric prbt
+ Ego Ælfric prbt
+ Ego Eadgar prbt
+ Ego Ælfred clr
+ Ego Cynestan clr
+ Ego Wulfgar clr
+ Ego Brihstan clr
+ Ego Wulfhun clr
+ Ego Eadwine clr
+ Ego Cynesige clr
+ Ego Æþelstan clr
+ Ego Cyneþegn clr.
+ Ego Wynstan clr
+ Ego Wulfheh clr.