S 1426
A.D. 1061 x 1065. Ælfwig, abbot, and the community at Bath, to Stigand, archbishop; lease, for life, of 30 hides at Tidenham, Gloucs., in return for 10 marks of gold and 20 pounds of silver, with reversion to the abbey. The lessee is to pay an annual render of one mark of gold, 6 porpoises and thirty thousand herring. English.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 74-5 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 822; Thorpe, pp. 379-80; B 929; Earle, pp. 377-8; Hunt, Bath Carts., p. 19; Robertson, Charters, no. 117 (pp. 216-19), with translation.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., p. 245, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 155, authentic; Robertson, Charters, pp. 469-70; Finberg, ECWM, no. 175, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 511-12, cited; HRH, p. 236, probably genuine; Pelteret 1995, p. 167; cf. S 1555, a description of the services due from Tidenham.
Her swutelað on þisum gewrite þæt Ælfwig abbud and eall seo geferræden on Baðan . hæfð gelæten to Stigande archebisceop .xxx. hyda landes æt Dyddanhamme his dæg . wið .x. marcan goldes . and wið .xx. pundon seolfres . 7 æfter hys dæge ga hyt eft in to þam halegan mynstre . mid mete . 7 mid mannum . swa full 7 swa forð swa hyt þænne byþ . 7 .i. marc goldes toeacan . 7 .vi. merswun . 7 .xxx. þusenda hæringys . ælce eare.
Þisys ys to gewittnysse . Eadweard ciningc . 7 Eadgyð seo hlæfdige . 7 Ealdryd archebisceop . 7 Hereman .bisceop. 7 Gisa .bisceop. 7 Harold eorl . 7 Tosstig eorl . 7 Æþelnoð abbod. 7 Ægylwig abbod. 7 Ægylsige abbod . 7 Ordric abbod . 7 Esegar steallere . 7 Roulf steallere . 7 Bondig steallere . 7 manega oþre gode menn þe heora naman her awritene ne syndon . 7 gyf ænig mann si swa dyrstig þæt wylle þis awendan si he amansumod fram Criste . 7 fram sancta Marian 7 fram sancte Petre . þam halegan apostole . 7 fram eallum Cristes halegum æfre on æcnysse . buton he hyt eft þe raþor gebete.