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S 1323

A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Eadmær, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides (mansi) at Little Witley, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric. Latin. with English bounds.

Archive: Worcester

MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 75rv (s. xi¹)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 159v (s. xi²; bounds only)

Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., præfatio, p. v (un-numbered), bounds only; Hearne, Heming, pp. 159-60, 352; K 561 ex MS 1; K 1369 ex Hickes; B 1242; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 15; Hooke 1990, p. 278, bounds only.

Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 143-5, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 299, authentic; Hooke 1980, p. 46, on topography; Hooke 1985, p. 110; Hooke 1990, pp. 278-81, on bounds, with map p. 279.

Notes: Rubric and postscript name Wulfrun as the second life.

Witleah . Eadmær 7 Wulfrun .

+ Anno dominicæ incarnationis . dcccc . lxviiii . ego Osuuald . superni rectoris fultus juvamine præsul cum licentia . Eadgari . regis Anglorum . ac Ælfhere . ducis Merciorum uni ministro meo qui a gnosticis nota . Eadmær . nuncupatur vocabulo ob ejus fidele obsequium quandam ruris particulam . iiii . videlicet mansos quod solito vocitatur nomine . Witleah cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus liberaliter concessi ut ipse vita comite fideliter perfruatur et post vitæ suæ terminum duobus quibus voluerit clero nomis derelinquat . quibus etiam ex hac vita migratis rus predictum cum omnibus utensilibus ad usum primatis ecclesiæ Dei in Wiogorna ceastre restituatur immunis . His metis prefatum rus hinc inde giratur .

Ðis syndon þa lond gemæru æt Witleag ærest of Grim setene gemære an siht ferð of siht ferð an fearn hege of fearn hege an gerd wege of gerd wege to fif acan of fif acan to þrim gemæran of þrim gemæran to kyllan rygce ondlong ðære aldan dic of cyllan rygce an stan broc ondlong broces an Tæcles broc of Tæcles broce an beferic of beferic on doferic onlong doferic on sæfern .

Eadmær wæs se forma man 7 Wulfrun is se oðer .

+ Ego Osuuold episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Wulfric presbiter .
+ Ego Eadgar presbiter .
+ Ego Wistan presbiter .
+ Ego Ælfred clericus .
+ Ego Æþelstan clericus .
+ Ego Wulhun clericus .
+ Ego Brihstan clericus .
+ Ego Ælfstan clericus .
+ Ego Wulfgar clericus .
+ Ego Eadwine clericus .
+ Ego Wunstan clericus .
+ Ego Ælfgar clericus .
+ Ego Ufic clericus .
+ Ego Wulfheah clericus .
+ Ego Leofwine clericus .
+ Ego Tuna clericus .
+ Ego Wulfnoð clericus .
+ Ego Eadweard clericus .