S 1316
A.D. 967. Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to Wulfgar, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Itchington in Tytherington, Gloucs. Latin with English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 60rv (s. xi1)
2. BL Cotton Vitell. C. ix, 129v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 128-9 ex MS 1, p. 559 ex MS 2; K 540; B 1207; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 7.
Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 115, authentic; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary and background to lease; King 1996, pp. 106-7.
Notes: Rubric names Wulfric and Wulfbyr[ht] as the second and third lives.
Æt Icenantune . Wulfgaro . Wulfric . Wulbyr . . .
Px Anno incarnationis dominicæ . dcccc . lxvii . Ego Oswald gratia Dei gratuita Huuicciorum episcopus cum consensu et unianima licentia venerandæ familiæ in Weogerne ceastre terram aliquam juris nostri id est duas mansas . æt Icenantune concedo Wulfgaro ministro meo ea vero ut habeat et perfruatur dies suos et post vitæ suæ terminum duobus tantum heredibus immunem derelinquat , quibus defunctis aecclesiæ Dei in Wiogorna ceastre restituatur . Sit autem terra ista libera omni regi nisi aecclesiastici censi .
Þonne is ealles þæs landes twa hida þe Oswald bisceop bocað Wulfgare his þægne mid his hlafordes læafe þreora manna dæg on þa ge rad wyrce þæt he wyrce þæt þæt land si un for worht in to þære halgan stowe .
Scripta est hec carta his testibus consentientibus quorum inferius nomina notantur .
+ Oswold bisceop consensi .
+ Wulfric presbiter .
+ Eadgar presbiter .
+ Wistan presbiter .
+ Ælfstan clericus .
+ Eadwine clericus .
+ Ælfgar clericus .
+ Wulfheah clericus .
+ Tuna clericus .
+ Ælfred clericus .
+ Æþelstan presbiter .
+ Wulfhun clericus .
+ Byrhstan clericus .
+ Wulfgar clericus .
+ Wenstan clericus .
+ Ufic clericus .
+ Leofwine clericus .
+ Wulfnoð clericus .