S 1418
A.D. 946 x 953. Æthelnoth, priest, to New Minster, Winchester; grant of land at Basing, Hants., and elsewhere, which he had been given by King Edmund. Old English, Middle English and Latin versions.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MSS: Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 21rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 146-7; B 804 (Old English); B 805 (Middle English); B 806 (Latin); Birch, Liber Vitae, p. 231 ex Edwards (Old English); Robertson, Charters, no. 28 (pp. 54-5), with translation (Old English).
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1921, p. 101; Robertson, Charters, pp. 310-11; Finberg, ECW, no. 69, authentic; Rumble 1983, pp. 263-9, on estate; Keynes 1996, p. 23 n. 77, dubious, probably not contemporary.
Ic Æthelnoð sacerd an þes landes æt Basyngum mid ealra þæra londes þæt me cining Edmund sealde into niwan ministre on Wintanceacestre minra sawla þearfe, æc to fremdon 7 mæge ut to seallan, mid ealra freogdom þæt me cining Edmund giefan habban. Gewitenesse + Eadred cining + Æthelgar biscop + 7 Ælfric biscop + 7 menigfeald oþæra manna.