S 1560
Bounds of land in Winchester. English.
Archive: Winchester, Nunnaminster
MSS: BL Harley 2965, 40v (s. ix/x; Dumville 1992, pl. 2, between pp. 98 and 99; Brown 1996, p. 200, fig. 13)
Printed: B 630; Birch 1889/1, pp. 32-3, with translation and map.
Comments: Birch 1889/1 p. 96; Ker, Catalogue, p. lix, hand similar to that of 891 annal in Parker Chronicle, pp. 308-9 (no. 237), dates s. ix; Finberg, ECW, no. 177; Biddle and Hill 1971, pp. 73-4, dates from before death of Ealhswith in 902; Biddle 1975, pp. 127-8, 234, with map p. 129; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 234, 235, 273, 322; Rahtz and Bullough 1977, pp. 23, 25-6; Parkes 1983, pp. 131-2, on script; Dumville 1987, p. 164, on script; Dumville 1992, pp. 83-5, 92 n. 184, on script, estate-survey may have been drawn up before Ealhswith's death, but the MS copy could well be later in date.
Þæs hagan ge mære þe Ealhswið hæfð æt Wintan ceastre lið up of þæm forda on þone west mestan mylen gear weste weardne þæt east on þone ealdan welig 7 þonan up andlanges þæs eastran mylen geares þæt norð on þa ceap stræt þonne þær east andlanges þære ceap stræte oð cyninges burg hege on þone ealdan mylen gear þæt þær 7langes þæs ealdan myle geares oð hit facað on þæm ifihtan æsce þæt þær suð ofer þa twifealdan fordas on þa stræt midde þæt þær eft west andlangæs stræte 7 ofer þone forð þæt hit sticaþ eft on þæm westemestan mylen geare . ,