S 1421
s. xi1. The community at Worcester to Fulder; lease, for three years,of land at Luddington, Warwicks., in return for the three pounds that he had lent. English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Harley Ch. 83 A. 3 (s. xi2; BM Facs., iv. 43)
Printed: K 924; B 1318; Thorpe, pp. 434-5, with translation; Sweet, Second Reader, p. 231 (no. 43); Robertson, Charters, no. 79 (p. 154), with translation, p. 155.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Robertson, Charters, p. 402, transaction probably belongs to early 11th century; Ker 1948, p. 57, the MS is in the hand of Heming; Ker, Catalogue, p. xxxiv, on punctuation, p. lvi, probably written by Heming; Finberg 1972, p. 498; Hart, ECNE, no. 72, original; Hooke 1985, p. 199; Lawson 1993, p. 193; Pelteret 1995, p. 166; Hooke 1996, p. 112; Faith 1997, p. 67.
Px Her swutelað on [þissum gewrite] ymb1 þa foreward þe wæron geworhte betwux þam hirede on Wihgeraceastre . 7 Fuldre . þæt is þæt he hæbbe þæt land æt Ludintune .iii. gear ; for þam ðreom pundum þe he lænde . 7 þone . bryce þe on þam lande beo .iii. gear . 7 binnon þrym gearum . agife þæt land þam hirede . mid swa myclum swa se hired him on hand sette . þæt synd .xii. þeowe men . 7 .ii. gesylhðe oxan . 7 .i. hund sceapa . 7 half hundred foðra cornes. And seðe þas foreward tobreke ne gewurðe hit him næfre forgifen . ac beo 'he' fordemed into helle wite . 7 þær mid deofle wunige oð to domes dæge.
1 MS has swutelað on ymb