S 1317
A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Æthelweard, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Stoke Bishop, Gloucs., with reversion to the bishopric. Latin with English and English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL CottonTib. A. xiii, 58rv (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 123-4; K 550; B 1236; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 12.
Comments: Lindley 1959, on bounds; PN Gloucs., iii. 144-5; Finberg, ECWM, no. 117, authentic; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary; Bullough 1996, p. 11; King 1996, pp. 106-7.
Notes: Rubric names Æthelmær as the second life.
Æt Bisceopes Stoce Æþelweardo 7 Æþelmæro .
Px Ego Oswald ergo Christi crismate præsul judicatus dominicæ incarnationis anno . dcccc . lxviiii . annuente regi Anglorum Eadgar . Ælfereque Merciorum comite necnon et familia Weogornensis æcclesiæ quandam ruris particulam duas videlicet mansas in loco qui celebri vocatur a soliculis æt Stoce . vocabulo cuidam ministro meo nomine Æþelweardo perpetua largitus sum hereditate . et post vitæ suæ terminum duobus tantum heredibus inmunem derelinquat quibus defunctis aecclesiæ Dei in Weogorna ceastre restituatur .
Þis wæs gedon ymbe . viiii . nigon hund wintra 7 . lxviiii . 7 on nigoþan geare þe Oswold bisceop to folgoðe feng . Sancta Maria 7 sanctus Michahel cum sancto Petro 7 eallum Godes halgum gemiltsie þis healdendum gif hwa butan gewyrhtum hit abrecan wylle hæbbe him wið God gemære buton he ær to dæd bote gecyrre . Her is seo hond seton .
+ Oswald bisceop .
+ Eadgar presbiter .
+ Ælfred clericus .
+ Wulfhun clericus .
+ Ælfstan clericus .
+ Eadwine clericus .
+ Wulfric presbiter .
+ Wistan presbiter .
+ Æþelstan presbiter .
+ Byrhtstan clericus .
+ Wulfgar clericus .
+ Wynstan clericus .
+ Þis syndon þa land gemæru twegra hida æt Stoce ærest on æsc wellan of æsc wellan west on þa halas þanon on dynninces grafes wyrt truman þæt swa on swepelan stream . of swepelan streame west be wudu riman on readan wege suðweardan of readan wege west eft in æsc wellan .