S 1332
A.D. 977. Oswald, archbishop, to Æthelwold, his cniht; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides, less 60 acres, at Wolverton in Stoulton, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 77v (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 163-4; K 612 (incorrectly includes bounds, see S 1601); Robertson, Charters, no. 55 (p. 114), with translation, p. 115.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, pp. 360-2; Finberg, ECWM, no. 305, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 496, cited; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine; Hooke 1990, pp. 150-1; Dyer 1996, pp. 176, 182; King 1996, p. 103.
Notes: The archbishop added the 60 acres to his manor at Kempsey as wheat-growing land.
Note in Left Margin: [Wulf]ringctun [Æþelw]old.
Px Ic Osuuold arcebisceop þurh Godes giefe mid geþafunge . 7 leafe Eadwardes Angulcyninges 7 Ælfheres Mercna heretogan 7 þæs heorodes on Weogornaceastre landes sumne dæl þæt synd .ii. hida buton .lx. æcran þæt hæft se arcebisceop genumen into Cymesige to his hame him to hwætelande þe fram cuþum mannum Wulfringctun is gehaten sumum cnihte þæm is noma Æþelwold mid allum þingum þe þarto belimpað freolice his dæge forgeaf 7 æfter his dæge twam yrfweardum 7 æfter heora forðsiþe to þære halgan stowe into Wiogornaceastre þæm bisceope to bryce . sie hit ælces þinges freoh buto ferdfare 7 walgeworc . 7 brygcgeweorc 7 cyrcanlade. Þis wæs gedon ymbe .viiii. hund wintra 7 vii 7 hundseofantig þæs þæ drihtnes gebyrdtide wæs. Sancta Maria 7 sanctus Michahel cum sancto Petro 7 allum Godes halgum gemiltsien þis haldendum . gief hwa buton gewrihtum hit abrecan wylle God hine to rihtere bote gecyrre . amen. Her is seo hondseten. Æþelwold is se forma man.
+ Oswold arcebysceop.
+ Ego Winsige prb't
+ Ego Wulfric prb't
+ Ego Wulfeah prb't
+ Ego Eadgar prb't
+ Ego Æþelstan prb't
+ Ego Ælfsige prb't
+ Ego Eadweard prb't
+ Ego Ælfgar diac'
+ Ego Godingc diac'
+ Ego Leofstan diac'
+ Ego Æþelsige diac'
+ Ego Wulfweard diac'
+ Ego Cyneþegn cl'
+ Ego Wulfhuni cl'
+ Ego Wulfgar cl'
+ Ego Brihstan cl'
+ Ego Leofwine cl'
+ Ego Cynestan cl'
+ Wynstan cl'
+ Eadwine cl'
+ Ælfstan cl'
+ Ælfnoð cl'
+ Æþelwold cl'
+ Wulfnoð cl'
+ Æþric cl'
+ cl'