S 1325

A.D. 969. Oswald, bishop, to Ealhstan, his fidelis; lease of 8 hides (mansae) at Evenlode, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English bounds.

Archive: Worcester

MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 100rv (s. xi1)
2. Paris, BN, Français 19116, 40v (s. xvi; bounds only)

Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm., præfatio, p. vi (un-numbered), bounds only; Hearne, Heming, pp. 213-15; K 554 ex MS 1; K 1362 ex Hickes; B 1238.

Comments: Robinson 1919, p. 34; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 127-31, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 3, 219, 220; Armstrong 1963, p. 549 on MS 2; Finberg, ECWM, no. 118, authentic; Hooke 1985, pp. 62, 161, 193, 211, 215, on details of bounds; King 1996, p. 104; Wareham 1996, pp. 56, 60-1, on beneficiary.

Notes: The text seems to be defective, and a passage limiting the lease to three lives has probably been omitted. The rubric mentions Æthelstan, who was probably the second life.

Eowlangelad Ealhstan . Æþelstan .

Px Anno incarnationis dominicae . dcccclxviiii . Ego Oswald . superni rectoris fultus juvamine presul cum licentia . Eadgari . regis Anglorum . uno meo fideli qui a gnosticis noto Ealhstan . nuncupatur vocabulo ob ejus fidele obsequium . quandam ruris particulam . viii . videlicet mansas quod solito vocitatur nomine . Eowlangelade . cum omnibus utensilibus ad usum primatis æcclesiæ Dei in Wiogorna ceastre restituatur inmunis . His metis præfatum rus hinc inde giratur .

Ðis synd þa land gemære æt eowlan gelade of eowlan gelade and lang bladene of bladene and lang riþiges þæt on fugel mære midne of fulgel mere þæt on þone oþerne fugel mere of fugel mere þæt on gild beorh of gild beorh and lang sealt stræte to þan stane of þan stane to þan oþeran stane þæt swa to þan þriddan stane 7 to þan feorðan stane of þam stane to þære grenan stige of þære stige to lafercan beorh of lafercan beorh on þone ealdan weg þæt ofer þone broc þæt eft on þone ealdan weg of þam ealdan wege þæt forð on lang dune a bi heafdan þæt hit cymð to þan ealdan slo of þan slo to þan lytlan beorhe of þan beorge on þæt sic ond long sices ofer þone broc to heort wellan of heort wellan to hwete wellan 7 þreo æceras earð landes of hwete wellan a bi þan earð lande to þan 'to' brocenan beorge of þan beorge forð on geriht on þæt sic of þam sice be þan heafdan þæt hit cymð to mules hlawe 7 þreo æceras þonne adune and lang þære furh þæt cymð to bladene swa and lang bladene þæt hit cymð eft to eowlan gelade .

+ Ego Oswold episcopus consensi .
+ Wulfric presbiter .
+ Eadgar presbiter .
+ Wistan presbiter .
+ Ælfred clericus .
+ Æþelstan presbiter .
+ Wulfhune clericus .
+ Cynesige clericus .
+ Byrhstan clericus .
+ Ælfstan clericus .
+ Eadweard clericus .
+ Wulfgar clericus .
+ Eadwine clericus .
+ Wistan clericus .
+ Ælfgar clericus .
+ Ufic clericus .
+ Wulfheh clericus .
+ Leofwine clericus .
+ Tuna clericus .
+ Wulfnoð clericus .