S 246
A.D. 704 (Glastonbury). Ine, king, to the church of SS Mary and Patrick, Glastonbury; grant of freedom from secular burdens. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 58v (s. xiv)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 5. 33, 8rv (s. xiii)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. v, 56rv (s. xv)
4. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 67r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 12-13, ex MS 4; Hearne, John of Glastonbury, i. 92-3 ex MS 3*; Hearne, Adam of Domerham, i. 51-2 ex MS 2; Warner 1826, Appendix p. lii (o. 2) ex Mon. Angl.; K 51 ex MSS 3*, 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 25 (no. 6); B 109 ex K and MSS 2*, 3*; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 141-2 (no. 200) ex MS 1; Scott 1981, pp. 92-5, with translation, in part; Carley, Glast. Chron., pp. 92-3, with translation, ex MS 3.
Comments: Warner 1826, Introduction pp. cii-iv; HS, p. 307, spurious; Davidson 1884, pp. 8-9, spurious; Watkin 1956, pp. 211-12 n. 34, may preserve traces of some genuine document; Finberg, ECW, no. 369, spurious, local adaptation of S 245; Finberg 1969, p. 73, spurious; Cox 1976, p. 33, on place-name; Scott 1981, p. 198 n. 86; Edwards 1988, p. 26, fabrication based on a copy of S 245; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 2-3; Abrams 1996, p. 28, on MS sources.
In nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi ! Ego Ini rex , decreto et consilio præsulis nostri Aldhelmi simulque cunctorum Dei sacerdotum suggestione , et monachorum petitione qui in parochia Uuest-Saxonum conversantur , hanc libertatem monachis , qui in æcclesia beatæ Dei genetricis Mariæ , et beati Patricii , omnipotenti Deo , sub abbate Hemgislo , famulantur , in pristina urbe quæ dicitur Glastingaea , impendo , et hanc privilegii dignitatem super altare pono ; ut sine impedimento sæcularium rerum , et absque tributo fiscalium negociorum , liberis mentibus , soli Deo serviant ; et monasticam disciplinam , Christo suffragium largiente , regulariter exerceant ; et pro statu et prosperitate regni nostri et indulgentia commissorum criminum , ante conspectum divinæ majestatis preces fundere dignentur : et orationum officia frequentantes in æcclesiis pro nostra fragilitate interpellare nitantur . Si quis vero contra huius decreti singrapham venire temptaverit , sciat se coram Christo , novemque angelorum ordinibus , in tremendo examine rationem redditurum . Pro ampliori firmitatis testamento . principes et senatores , judices et patricios subscribere fecimus ; actum publice , et confirmatum in lignea basilica , anno ab incarnatione domini septingentesimo quarto . + Ego Aldhelmus subscripsi .