S 306
A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to St Peter and the familia of Malmesbury; grant of 5 hides (mansiones) at Tockenham, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 14v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 127r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 28v-29r (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 91v (s. xii)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 27; K 273 ex MS 1; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., p. 391 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm. pp. 296-7 ex MS 2; B 481 ex Brewer, Hamilton and MS 1.
Comments: Darlington 1955, p. 90, spurious in present form; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECW, no. 207, the text reads like an epitome of a (lost) original; O'Donovan 1973, p. 108, witness-list and dating clause acceptable, charter may have a genuine base; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 226 n. 47, on estate; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1121-2, fabrication perhaps based on 'Second Decimation' charter.
Tockeham .
Regnante imperpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Ego Æthelwlf rex partem terre Gewisorum hoc est . v . mansiones donavi Deo 7 sancto Petro 7 familie Maldubiensi in loco qui dicitur Tockenham . eotenus ut ipsi jugiter orent pro nobis Deum omnipotentem . quatinus prospera tempora nobis largiatur ad conservandam fidem nostram 7 regni nostri gubernacula per omnia tempora gentis Anglorum . Et nemo audeat hoc donum mutare ab ipso monasterio sine ira 7 vindicta omnipotentis Dei . Et hoc donum factum est anno ab incarnacione domini .dcccliiii. Indiccione .iii.
Isti sunt testes .
Aeþelwlf rex .
Aelstan episcopus .
Swithun episcopus .
Aethelbold dux .
Eawlf dux .
Sirerich dux .
Atheberth dux .
Ulthere dux .
Lullede dux .
Ulflaf abbas .
Þerfarw abbas .
Esne minister .
Aethelred filius regis .
Aelred filius regis .
Cyneah minister .
Cuthwlf minister .
Ecgeard minister .
Osmund minister .
Milred minister .
Lulling minister .