S 1320
A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Brihtmær, his minister; lease, for, three lives, of 1 hide (mansa) at Whitlinge in Hartlebury, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English and English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 80v-81r (s. xi1)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 160v (s. xi2; bounds only)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 171-2, 354; K 560; B 1241; Hooke 1990, p 6, with translation, p. 7.
Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 132-3, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 298, authentic; Hooke 1990, pp. 272-4, on bounds, with map p. 273.
Notes: Rubric names Ælmær as second life.
Hwitanhlinc Byrihtmær 7 Ælmær .
Px Ego Oswald ergo Christi krismate præsul judicatus dominicae incarnationis anno . dcccclxix . annuente Anglorum Eadgaro Ælfhereque Merciorum comite necnon et familiae Wiogernensis ecclesiæ quandam ruris particulam unam videlicet mansam in loco qui celebri a soliculis nuncupatur æt Hwitan hlince . vocabulo cuidam ministro meo nomine Brihtmær . perpetua largitus sum hereditate et post vitæ suæ terminum duobus tantum heredibus immunem derelinquat quibus defunctis ecclesiæ Dei in Wiogorna ceastre restituatur .
Þis wæs gedon ymbe . ix . hund wintra 7 . ix . 7 sixtig on þy .x.an geare þæs þe Oswald bisceop to folgoþe fenge . Sanctae Mariae 7 sanctus Michahel cum sancto Petro 7 allum Godes halgum ge miltien þis haldendum . gief hwa buton gewrihtum hit abrecan wille hæbbe him wið God gemæne buton he to dæd bote gecyrre amen .
Ðis synd þa land gemæra to hwitan hlince of portan mære ond long sices innan þone suð broc and lang broces innan ceolmes gemære and lang þæs gemæres innan þa stræt and lang stræte in þa oðer dic and lang þære dic in here grafun þurh here grafun æft in portan mære .
Her is seo hond seten .
+ Osvvald Bisceop .
+ Wulfric presbiter .
+ Johan presbiter .
+ Brihstan clericus .
+ Ælfstan clericus .
+ Ælfgar clericus .
+ Wenstan clericus .
+ Eadgar presbiter .
+ Æþelstan presbiter .
+ Cyneþeng clericus .
+ Wulfgar clericus .
+ Ufic clericus .
+ Wulfheah clericus .
+ Wistan presbiter .
+ Wulfhun clericus .
+ Ælfsige diaconus .
+ Eadwine clericus .
+ Wulfheah clericus .
+ Tuna clericus .