S 1387
A.D. 1016 x 1020, probably 1018. Eadnoth, bishop, to Beorhtnoth; mortgage of a yardland by the river Creedy, Devon (? Creedy Barton in Newton St Cyres). English with Latin and English bounds.
Archive: Exeter (ex Crediton)
MSS: 1. Bodleian, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. III, endorsement (s. xi2; BA Facs., 27, dorse)
2. BL Cotton R. ii. 11 (s. xiii)
Printed: Davidson 1878, p. 239 ex MS 2; Earle, p. 422, from Davidson; Napier and Stevenson, p. 9 (no. 4, endorsement) ex MS 1; Hooke 1994, p. 194, bounds only.
Translated: Davidson 1878, p. 242; Earle, pp. 422-3; Napier and Stevenson, p. 77.
Comments: Davidson 1878, pp. 251-4, identifies land as Lower Creedy; Earle, p. 423, authentic; Napier and Stevenson, pp. 76-80, authentic; Finberg, ECDC, no. 52; Bishop 1955, p 195, apograph; Chaplais 1966, p. 11, probably genuine, hand is of s. xi med. (= 1981, XV p. 11); Finberg 1969, p. 64; BA Facs., p. 9, lease probably added to dorse of S 405 in third quarter of s. xi; Lawson 1993, pp. 68-9, 193; Hooke 1994, pp. 193-5, on bounds.
Notes: MS 2 shows that the original was in chirographic form.
+ In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi. Ic Eadnoð bisceop cyðe on þisson gewriton . þæt ic onborgede .xxx. mancsa goldes be leadgewihte to minre landhreddinge æt beorhnoðe. 7 ic gesealde hym ane gyrde landes to underwedde be Cridian to þam forewerdon. þæt he hæbbe his dæg. 7 ofer his dæg becweðe þone sceat þam þe him leofost beo þe on þam lande stent.
Ðis sind þa landgemæro þære gyrde be Cridian. Ærest on sceocabroces ford, þonne east on herpað on þone lytlan garan easteweardne, suð on þa deadan lace on Cridian, up ongean stream on þone ænlypan æcer, þonne east on herpað eft on sceocabroces ford.
Ðisses ys to gewitnisse: Cnut cyning 7 Wulstan arcebisceop 7 Lifing arcebisceop 7 Birhtwold bisceop 7 Eadnoð bisceop 7 Burewold bisceop 7 Æðelwine bisceop 7 Birihtwine bisceop 7 Æðelwerd ealdorman 7 Aðelwold abbud 7 eall se hired on Exancestre 7 se hired on Cridiantune.
7 þis cydde se bisceop þam burhwiton on Exanceastre 7 to Tottanesse 7 to Hlidaforda 7 to Beardastapole. Pax sit hoc seruantibus 7 infernus sit hoc frangentibus.