S 151
A.D. 796 (Chelsea, Middx). Ecgfrith, king of Mercia, to Willegoda, abbot, and St Albans Abbey; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Pinnelesfeld (Pinesfield Farm in Rickmansworth, Herts.). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: St Albans
MSS: 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), 156v (s. xvii)
2. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), 170r (s. xvii)
3. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 149v (s. xiii; without bounds)
4. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 153rv (s. xiii; without bounds)
Printed: Watts, Additamenta, p. 239; Alford 1663, ii. 678-9; K 172; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 224 (no. 7); Luard, Additamenta, pp. 8-10; B 280.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 702, spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 367, doubtful authenticity; Gelling, ECTV, no. 164, spurious; Sawyer 1983, p. 292, on meeting-place; Yorke 1985, p. 24; Keynes 1993, pp. 264, 269, on MSS 1 and 2, pp. 272-3, fabrication in part modelled on genuine charter of late 8th century; Kitson 1993, p. 647, on bounds; Cubitt 1995, pp. 275-6, spurious; cf. S 150.
Pynnesfeld.
+ Ego Ecgfridus rex Merciorum anno dominice incarnacionis . dcc . xcvi . indiccione . iiii . primo autem anno regni nobis a Deo concessi . terram itaque quinque manensium in loco qui dicitur Pinnelesfeld cum antiquis terminis pro benediccione nostri regni abbati Willegoda nomine ad possidendum dabo . de illa nanque in nomine domini precipiam ut semper sit beato Albano et monasterio suo subjecta . Et terre ille a laboriosis operibus et ab omnibus tributis vel censuris . et ab omnibus refeccionibus regum . vel principum . seu omnium expedicionum . pro redempcione anime mee libertam fixam . immutabilem . concedere curabo . Et possessor illius terre non habeat potestatem hanc terram a beato Albano diribare . Qui augeat beato Albano et monachis suis benediccionis gratiam . Augeat illi Deus in celesti Hierusalem . pacem et vitam æternam .
Conscriptus est autem hic in loco qui dicitur Celchyth in synodo publico . Hec sunt nomina testium . huius donacionis .
+ Ego Ecgfridus rex hanc meam donacionem cum signo crucis confirmare enrabo .
+ Ego Cænuulfus rex Merciorum concedo .
+ Ego Cynedryþ regina conscripsi .
+ Ego Sigricus . dux .
+ Ego Æþelheardus archiepiscopus .
+ Ego Unuuona episcopus .
+ Ego Weohthunus episcopus .
+ Ego Alhmundus episcopus .
+ Ego Beonna abbas .
+ Ego Fo[r]þredus abbas .
+ Ego Ælfhunus episcopus .
+ Ego Sighere filius Sig[heri] .
+ Ego Brorda dux .
+ Ego Esne dux .
Ego Wigbertus + dux .
Ego Cydda + dux .
Ego Wicga + dux .
Ego Wynbertus + dux .
Ego Alhmundus + dux .
Ego Heardbertus + dux .
Ego Cuþbertus + dux .
Ego Brorda + dux .
Ego Eobingus + dux .