S 1318
A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to Ætheleard (? Æthelweard), his fidelis; lease, for three lives, of 7 hides (mansae) at Tiddington in Alveston, Warwicks., and at Faccanlea, with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 94v-95r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 202-3; K 552; B 1232.
Comments: Hart, ECNE, no. 61, authentic; Gelling 1978, p. 14, on Faccanlea; Gelling 1978/1, pp. 212-13, on Faccanlea; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary; King 1996, p. 106, Ætheleard probably a scribal error for Æthelweard.
Notes: Rubric names Æthelmær as second life.
Æt Tidinctune 7 æt Fahcanlea Æþeleardo 7 Æþelmære .
+ Anno incarnationis dominicae . dcccclxviiii . Ego Oswold gratia Dei Huuicciorum episcopus cum consensu et unanima licentia venerande familiæ in Wiogerne ceastre nec non . et Eadgari regis totius Bryttanniæ terram aliquam juris nostri id est mansas . vii . in loco qui dicitur æt Tidinctune concedo Æþeleardo . meo fideli ea vero ut habeat et perfruatur dies suos et post vitæ sue terminum duobus tantum heredibus immunem derelinquat quibus defunctis ecclesiæ Dei in Wiogurne ceastre restituatur . Sit autem terra ista libera omni regi nisi ecclesiastici censi .
Þonne is ealles þæs landes æt tið . v . 7 æt faccanlea oþer healf hid þe Oswald bisceop bocað Æþelearde mid his hlafordes leafe þreora manna dæg on þa gerad wyrce þæt he ge wyrce þæt þæt land sie unfor worht into þære halgan stowe se þe þis gehaldan wille God hine gehalde se þe hit þence to wendenne hæbbe him gemæne wið þone hyhstan on þan ytemestan dæge þisses lifes .
Scripta est haec carta his testibus consentibus quorum inferius nomina notantur .
+ Ego Osvvald episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Wulfric presbiter .
+ Ego Eadgar presbiter .
+ Ego Wistan presbiter .
+ Ego Æþelstan presbiter .
+ Ego Wulfhan clericus .
+ Ego Brihstan clericus .
+ Ego Cynsige clericus .
+ Ego Ælfstan clericus .
+ Ego Wulfgar clericus .
+ Ego Eadwine clericus .
+ Ego Wenstan clericus .
+ Ego Ælfgar clericus
+ Ego Vfic clericus .
+ Ego Wulfheh clericus .
+ Ego Leofwine clericus .
+ Ego Tuna clericus .
+ Ego Eadward clericus .
+ Ego Wulfnoð clericus .