S 1372
A.D. 975 x 978 (? 977). Oswald, archbishop, to Wulfgar, priest; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide at Little Witley, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. English with bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 65v-66r (s. xi1)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 159v (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 138-9, 352; K 682; Robertson, Charters, no. 58 (p. 120), with translation, p. 121; Hooke 1990, pp. 299-300, bounds only.
Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1928, pp. 102-4, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, pp. 364-5, probably belongs to S 977; Finberg, ECWM, no. 310, authentic; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine; Sawyer 1975, p. 87, dates 977; Hooke 1980, p. 46, on topography; Hooke 1985, pp. 110, 148, cited; Hooke 1990, pp. 299-301, on bounds; King 1996, p. 111.
Æt Witlea Wulfgare.
PX Ic Osuuald þurh Godes giefe arcebisceop mid geþafunge 7 leafe Eadwardes . Angulcyningæs 7 Ælfheres Mercna heretogan 7 þæs heorodes æt Wygerneceastre landes sumne dæl þæt is an hid æt Witlea sumum preoste þam is Wulfgar noma mid allum þingum þe þarto belimpað freolice his dæge forgeaf 7 æfter his dæge twam yrfweardum 7 æfter hieora forðsiþe to þære halgan stowe into Wiogornaceastre þæm biscope to bryce. Sit autem terra ista libera omni regi nisi ecclesiastici censi. Sancta Maria 7 Sanctus Michahel cum sancto Petro 7 allum 'Godes' halgum gemiltsien þis haldendum gief hwa buton gewrihtum hit abrecan wille hæbbe him wið God gemæne on þam ytemestan dæge þisses lifes buton he ær to dædbote gecyrre.
Þis sindon þæs landes gemæra þe gebyriað into þære westmestan hide æt Witleage feldlondes 7 wudulandes swa hit todæled is of ðrym gemæran westrihte on þa dic andlang dices on kyllan hrigc of kyllan hrigce on sylweg andlang weges on þa hæþihtan leage 7 swa on þæt fule sloh of þæm slo ofer buttingc graf on eccles broc andlang broces on doferic.
+ Her is 'sio' hondseten Oswald arceb'.
+ Wynsige prb't
+ Wulfric prb't
+ Wulfheah prb't
+ Æþelstan prb't
+ Ælfgar diac'
+ Godinc diac'
+ Leofstan diac'
+ Æþelsige diac'
+ Wulfward diac'
+ Kyneþeg clr
+ Leofwine clr
+ Wulfhun clr
+ Kynestan clr
+ Ælfsige prb't
+ Eadgar prb't
+ Wistan prb't
+ Eadward prb't
+ Brihstan clr
+ Eadwine clr
+ Wynstan clr
+ Ælfstan clr
+ Æþelwold clr
+ Ælfnoð clr
+ Ufic clr
+ Æþeric clr