S 212
A.D. 866. Burgred, king of Mercia, to Wulferd; grant of 2 hides (manentes) at Seckley in Upper Arley, belonging to Wolverley, Worcs., in return for 5 hides on a single-lifetime lease, 400 silver sicli and various other items. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: Somers Ch. 8 (lost)
Printed: Smith, Bede, p. 770 ex MS; K 292 and vol. iii. 396-7 ex Smith; B 513 ex Smith; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 32.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 77-8 (no. 3).
Comments: Wanley, Catalogus, p. 301, no. 8, crosses in MS had different forms; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 78-9; Grundy, Worcs. 1928, pp. 104-8, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 261, authentic; Davies 1972, pp. 471, 476, on formulas; Hooke 1990, pp. 120-5, on bounds.
+ Regnante in perpetuum Deo et domino nostro Jesu Christo anno dominicæ incarnationis dccc . lxvi . indictione vero decima .
Ego Burgred rex Merciorum cum consensu 7 licentia . seniorum meorum libenti animo . concedens donabo aliquam partem agri regni meg a Deo dati Wulfferd . do duos manentes . at Soeges lea . pertinentem in loco ubi ruricoli nominant Wulfferdinleh . ut habeat sibi 7 bene perfruat . in æternum hereditatem 7 cuicumque voluerit . post se . derelinquat in jus perpetuum 7 omnium bonorum ad istam terram pertinentibus antiquitus 7 olim constitutis in campis 7 in pascuis 7 in partis 7 in silvis 7 quidquid ad terram istam pertinent . Ego Burgred rex Merciorum . hanc meam munificentiam augebo . Wulfferd . 7 ei constituam lxx . porcis saginam in commone illa salvatica taxatione hubi ruricoli . Wulfferdinleh . nominant 7 v . plaustros plenas de virgis bonis et hunicuique anno unum roborem ad ædificium 7 alias materias necessarias . 7 lignaria exabuntia ad ignem sicut illi necesse sit 7 aliam silvaticam taxadtionem . pertinentem ei etiam dabo altrinsecus in campo 7 silvo sicut ad terram duorum manentium pertinent .
Ego Wulferd . pro comparatione . 7 commutatione istius terriunculi 7 Wulferdinlea dedi Burgrede regi Merciorum . terram v . manentium in hunius hominis diem liberatum . 7 cccc siclos in argento puro 7 duos hernaculos cum omnibus subpellectilibus suis 7 viii . boves 7 l . porcos 7 cc . segites cum gramine toto . 7 xxx . modios de ordio triturato sine contribulibus 7 suburbano ;
Hæc prænominata terrihuncula 7 Wulfferdinlea fif hida his terminibus circumdatur ;
Ðis seond ða lond gemære æt Wulfferdinlea . of sture on hunigbroc . up efter broce . on ðone aldan hæge . ondlong hæges . on ðone aldan weg . ondlang weges on ða miclan strete. ondlong strete on feower gemære . þæt swa on calcbroc ondlong broces þæt swa on horsa broc . ondlong broces þæt swa on ða dic . ondlong dices on sture . eft of sture on ða dic ondlong dices þæt on cuþdredestreo . ondlong dices on heasecan berh . of heahsecan berge on ða dic . ondlong dices on Wenferð ondlong Wenferþ þæt æft on sture : .
Siquis autem hanc meam donationem servare voluerit , conservet eum superna pietas hic 7 in celis . Siquis vero minuere vel frangere tentaverit sciat se anaþematum coram summo Deo nisi hic digne emendaverit Deo 7 hominibus 7 hii testes aderant quorum infra nomina liquescunt .
+ Ego Burgred rex Merciorum . hanc meam donationem cum signo sanctæ crucis Christi firmabo .
+ Ego Aeþelswiþ regina consensi 7 subscripsi : .
+ Ego Ceolweorþ consensi 7 subscripsi : .
+ Ego Wulfsig Episcopus consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Eadbald Episcopus consensi 7 subscripsi : .
+ Ego Ceored Episcopus consensi: .
+ Ego Alhhun Episcopus consensi : .
+ Ego Deorlaf consensi 7 subscripsi : .
+ Ego Aldred abbas.
Humberht dux .
Beornoþ dux .
Beornard dux .
Eamberht dux .
Mucel dux : .
+ Ego Aeþelwulf dux .
Aeþelheard .
Berhtferþ .
Aeþelred .
Berhtric .
Ceolmund .
Boldred .
Eadgar .
Mucel .