S 1409
A.D. 1051 x 1055. Ealdred, bishop, to Wulfgeat; lease, for three lives, of 1.5 hides at Ditchford in Blockley, Gloucs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: Somers Ch. 24 (lost)
Printed: Smith, Bede, p. 782 ex MS; K 804 ex Smith; Robertson, Charters, no. 111 (p. 208) ex Smith, with translation, p. 209.
Translated: Brown 1972, pp. 136-7; Brown 1984, p. 133 (no. 162); Douglas and Greenaway, EHD II, no. 185 (pp. 902-3).
Comments: Wanley, Catalogus, p. 303 (no. 24); Robertson, Charters, pp. 456-9, dates 1046 x 1053, probably 1051 x 1052; Atkins 1940, p. 23, dates 1051 x 1053; Finberg, ECWM, no. 166, authentic.
+ Her swutelað on ðissum gewrite . þæt Ealdred biscop . hæfþ geunnen Wulfgeate sumne dæl landes . þæt is oþer healf hid on ðam tune ðe Dicford is genamad . to habbanne 7 to brucane ðreora manna dæg . 7 æfter hyr dæge . gange ðæt land eft agean to ðam ðe se wylle ðe ðonne bisceoprices wealde on Wigeraceastre 7 hig syn æfre underþeodde . 7 gehersume . 7 ðam hlafordscipe folhgien ðe ðonne bisceop beo . 7 gif hig ænigne frambyge don ðolian ðære are . 7 ðisses is to gewitnysse eall se hired on Wigeraceastre . 7 se hired on Eofeshamme . 7 se hired on Persceoran . 7 Leofric eorl . 7 Odda eorl . 7 Aelfric his broðor . 7 Berhtric Ælfgares sunu . 7 Owine . 7 Wagan . 7 Aeglric ðæs biscopes broðor . 7 Ceolmær . 7 Atsur . 7 Esebearn . 7 Ordwig . 7 Aeþestan fætta . 7 Aelfward æt Langadune . 7 ealle ða yldestan ðegnas on Wigeraceastrescire denisce 7 englisce . 7 hredde he ða oðra healfe hida for are ðreora manna dæg to cinges banne: .