S 1312

A.D. 967. Oswald, bishop, to Æthelweard, his minister; lease, for three lives, of land at Itchington in Tytherington, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English.

Archive: Worcester

MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 59v-60r (s. xi1)

Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 127-8; K 541; B 1206.

Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 114, authentic; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary; King 1996, pp. 106-7.

Æt Icenantune Æþelwerde .

Px Ego Oswald ergo Christi crismate presul judicatus dominicæ incarnationis anno . dcccc lx vii . annuente regi Anglorum Eadgaro . Ælfereque Merciorum comite nec non et familiae Wiogernensis aecclesiæ quandam ruris particulam unam videlicet mansam in loco qui cælebri a soliculis nuncupatur æt Icenantune vocabulo cuidam ministro meo nomine Æþelweard . perpetua largitus sum hereditate et post vitæ suæ terminum duobus heredibus tantum inmunem derelinquat quibus defunctis æcclesiæ Dei in Wiogerne ceastre restituatur .

Þis wæs gedon ymbe . viiii . hund wintra 7 seofan 7 syxtig on þy ea'h'teoþan geare þæs þe Oswald bisceop to folgoþe feng . Sancta Maria 7 Sanctus Michahel cum Sancto Petro 7 eallum Godes halgum ge mil't'sien þis healdendum . gif hwa buton gewyrhtum hit abrecan wille hæbbe him wið God gemæne . buton he to dæd bote ge cyrre .

Her is seo hand seten .

+ Oswald bisceop .
+ Wulfric presbiter .
+ Eadgar presbiter .
+ Elfred clericus .
+ Æþelstan clericus .
+ Wulfwine clericus .
+ Ælfgar clericus .
+ Wulfheah clericus .
+ Tuna clericus .
+ Wulfhun clericus .
+ Byrhstan clericus .
+ Ælfstan clericus .
+ Wulfgar clericus .
+ Eadwine clericus .
+ Wenstan clericus .
+ Ufic clericus .
+ Leofwine clericus .
+ Wulfnoð clericus .