S 260
A.D. 758. Cynewulf, king, to Malmesbury Abbey; grant of 30 hides (manentes) at Moredon and Rodbourne, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 12v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 125v (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 23rv (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 90v (s. xii)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 25; K 103 ex Wharton and MS 1; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 387-8 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., p. 291 ex MS 2; B 185 ex Brewer, Hamilton, K, and MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 46.
Comments: Darlington 1955, pp. 5, 89; Watkin 1956, p. 229 and n. 37, apparently genuine; Finberg, ECW, no. 190, authentic; Edwards 1988, pp. 119-21, authentic, perhaps abbreviated by a copyist; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 227, on witnesses.
De possessione Meardene et Reodburne . ubi duo latices junguntur . quam Kynewlf rex Meldunensi cenobio largitus est .
In Christi nomine . Ego Kinewlf rex cum consensu principum meorum supra nominatim designatorum aliquam terræ portionem quasi . xxx . manentium habentem familiæ Christi in Maldubiensi monasterio constitutæ pro remedio animæ meæ perpetualiter possidendam donavi . Hec est ubi se duo latices junguntur Meardaeno et Reodburna et in circuitu eorum quemadmodum ipsi incolæ bene nosce dinoscuntur terminos et limites locorum illorum necnon et villam cui subjacent . paschua . prata . arida . irrigua . simul et silvestria loca . Et hæc acta sunt anno ab incarnatione Christi . dcc . l . viii . indictione . xi . Signum manus Kynewlfi regis .
Hoc signum ego Kyneheardus episcopus jussus a rege supranominato inscripsi et subscripsi .
Signum manus Herewardi episcopi .
Signum manus Eoppan .
Signum manus Herecan abbatis .
Signum manus Yntan .
Signum manus Alfrithes .
Signum manus Beornes abbatis .