S 1381
A.D. 996. Ealdwulf, archbishop, to Leofenath, his miles; lease, for three lives, of 40 agri at Huneshom and a fishery, with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 89rv (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 190-1; K 695.
Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 386, authentic; HRH, p. 232, probably authentic; Hooke 1985, p. 132, fishery perhaps on the Severn; Dumville 1993, p. 66, the latest document in the original part of the cartulary; King 1996, p. 110.
Old English only
þis is seo gerædnes þe Ealdulf arcebisceop hæfð geræd to setnesse þa hwile þis land unagan se. þæt is þæt Leofenað and his twegen yrfewardas æfter him gesyllan ælce geare [XV] leaxas, and þa gode, þam biscope þe þonne beo into Wiogornaceastre, and þis beo gelæst on forme fæstenes dæg, and to þam biscope gebroht.