S 265
A.D. 808 for 757 x 758. Cynewulf, king of the Saxons, to the brethren of St Peter's Minster, Bath; grant of 5 hides (mansiones) at North Stoke, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 77-8 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 193 and vol. iii. 388; B 327; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 23-4; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 104.
Comments: Hunt, Bath Carts., p. xxxiv, may originally have been a charter of Coenwulf of Mercia; Stenton 1933, p. 325 n. 3, on a witness (= Stenton 1970, p. 191 n. 2); Grundy, Somerset, pp. 230-2, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 388, authentic, date 808 probably error for 758; John 1966, p. 88, on history of Bath; Sims-Williams 1975, pp. 8-9, authentic, discusses history of Bath minster; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 374, 498, authentic; Scharer 1982, p. 214, doubtful; Wormald 1983, p. 117, cited; Cunliffe 1984, p. 349, cited; Edwards 1988, pp. 223-7, probably authentic, with some corruption and minor alterations; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 5, dates 757 x 760; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 160-1, probably belongs to 758; Cubitt 1995, p. 268, substantially authentic, probably 758.
De Norðstocha.
Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Ego Cynulfus rex Saxonum dedi fratribus in monasterio Sancti Petri quod situm est in civitate aet Bathum . aliquam terræ particulam mei proprii juris . hoc est v . mansiones in loco qui dicitur Norþstoc . ut habeant sibi et posteriores illorum in illo monasterio in perpetuam possessionem ad usum necessarium. Et si aliquis in futuro hoc irrumpere voluerit . sciat se maledictum et in hoc seculo et in futuro . Et si quis voluerit conservare quod constituimus in hoc dono conservet illi dominus partem æternæ beatitudinis in sæcula . Anno ab incarnatione domini . dccc . viii . facta est hæc donatio . et in huius doni testimonio extiterunt hi quorum inferius nomina recitata sunt .
Ego Cynulfus rex Saxouum hoc donum signo crucis firmavi + .
Ego Cuðbertus gratia dei archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi et pervertenti hoc donum maledixi in perpetuum + .
Ego Torhthelmus episcopus consensi + .
Ego Cyneardus episcopus consensi + .
Ego Eanfirdus episcopus consensi + .
Ego Herewardus episcopus consensi + .
Ego Egculfus episcopus consensi + .
Ego Milredus episcopus consensi + .
+ Ego Acca episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Aldulfus episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Eardulfus episcopus consensi .
+ Signum manu Bootwine abbatis .
+ Signum manu Eatan .
+ Signum manu Dieres .
+ Signum manu Alhfirþi.
+ Signum manu Aldberhti .
+ Signum manu Eadbaldi .
+ Ego Offa rex Merciorum his statutis consensi .
Et hæc sunt territoria . Divisiones . Ærest of Swinforda upp andlang broces to Ceolnes wyllan ; andlang hegeræwe to luttes crundele ; ðanon to grafes owisce ; andlang owisc to wege ; andlang weges to Ælesbeorge nyðer on Alercumb ; andlang Alercumbes ut on Afene ; andlang Afene ðæt eft on Swinford .