S 174
A.D. 814 = 813 (26 December). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to the church of Worcester; grant of 1 hide (cassata) at Dunhampstead in Himbleton, Worcs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 185v-186r (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 415-16; K 202 and vol. iii. 388-9; B 349; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 111.
Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 135-6, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 240, authentic; Hooke 1990, pp. 105-7, on bounds, with map p. 106.
Notes: This is partly based on S 172 and partly on S 95, an earlier charter covering a nearby estate, which has provided part of the witness-list. The vernacular bounds are much later than the alleged dated of the grant.
De Dvnhamstyde.
Px Donante domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Ego Kenulfus rex Merciorum . terram juris mei unam cassatam cui vocabulum est Dunhamstyde pro redemptione animæ meæ ad æcclesiam Uuigornam trado Deneberhti Wigernensis episcopi cohortationibus in perpetuam hereditatem . Acta est autem hæc mea donatio anno . dcccxiiii . indictione . vii a . die . vii . Kalendas Januarii .
Siquis hanc meam donationem temptaverit defraudare . sciat se reddere rationem in die judicii ; atque anathematizatum a Deo atque omnibus sanctis . nisi hic prius cum satisfactione emendaverit . Huius donationis hi mei optimates testes sunt ; quorum nomina infra expressa sunt .
Ego Kenulfus rex Merciorum confirmationem hanc confirmavi consentiendo et propria manu conscribendo .
Ego Uuor episcopus .
Ego Wilfrid episcopus .
Ego Deneberht episcopus .
Ego Eadberht minister .
Ego Vualdhere minister .
Ðis syndon þa ge mæru . ærest græfan hrycg se wudu to dun ham styde þanon on bradan edisc þanon to cyran leage swa þweres ofer þæt graf on stanehtan ford . þanon be westan þa leage eft to grafan hrycge .