S 319
A.D. '874' ? for 844. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent, to Eadred; grant of land at Horton, near Canterbury, Kent. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: BL Stowe Ch. 21 (s. xi1; OS Facs., iii. 21)
Printed: B 538.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 216 n. 1, a strange 11th-century charter; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 222-3, on place-names; Bishop 1959, p. 94 n. 2, script entirely characteristic of the St Augustine's scriptorium of later 11th century, scribe also appears in BL Royal 6. C. i,; Whitelock 1979, p. 77, witness-list belongs to c. 840; Abels 1983; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. xciv-v, on circumstances of production.
Notes: A charter of Æthelwulf, perhaps dated 844, has been partly rewritten to incorporate details about the later ownership and division of the estate. This probably coincided with the confirmation by Archbishop Æthelred (870 x 888) and others. The present MS is a much later copy of the emended charter. At some stage the incarnation year has been altered.
Endorsements:
Eðeluulfus Rex dedit Horatun (Hortune) Edredo
Latine
+ In nomine domini & in nomine alti throni regis domini nostri Jhesu Christi ; Ego Æðelulf rex misericordia Dei occidentalium Saxonum ; necnon & Cantuuariorum cum unanima voluntate ac licentia meorum optimatum do et concedo Edredo terram quæ dicitur Horatune ; & permitto ipsi Edrede dare Lullan & Sigeðryðe ; & rursum regali institutione Lulla & Sigeðryð contradunt Eaulfe & Herewine partem terrae ejusdem quæ dicitur Horatun ; Hoc ; est ; unum aratrum in sempiternam Hereditatem perfruendam ; & Eaulf dimidiam partem tradidit Biarnulue ; & ipse Eaulf meditatem retinuit ad habendum & possidendum & feliciter in dies vitæ suæ perfruendum ; & post dies suos cuicumque heredi placuerit derelinquendum ut libera eam habeat potestate ;
Hi sunt termini eidem terrae circum jacentes ; ab oriente silva quæ dicitur duungraab ; Ab occidente communiter episcopi & Lullan ; Ab australi parte terra Lullan ad Certeham ; & ab aquilone Biernulfi quam terram æternaliter possidet ;
Constituimus etiam hanc terram liberam ab omni regali subjectione ; & terreni operis ; nisi operatione portis ; & arcis munitione intus & foris ; magnis & modicis ; minoris ac majoris ;
Si quis servare voluerit verba nostra & donationem nostram ; servetur et sempiterna Dei benedictio hic & in futuro sæculo ; Si autem quod non optamus aliquis hominum diabolica temeritate instigatus surrexerit qui hanc donationem infringere temptaverit ; sciat se coram Deo & hominibus rationem redditurum in die judicii ; nisi ante digna satisfactione Deo & hominibus emendare voluerit ;
Actum ; est ; hoc anno dominicæ incarnationis ; dccclxxiiii ; indictione ; vii ; his testibus consistentibus & conscribentibus quorum hic nomina infra hanc scedulam caraxata ad notantur ;
+ Ego Æðelulf rex cum signo sanctæ crucis Christo roboro & subscribo ;
+ Ego Cealnoð archiepiscopus cum vexillo crucis roboro ;
+ Ego Æðelstan rex cum vexillo roboro & subscribo ;
+ Ego Biarnmod episcopus cum vexillo crucis roboro & subscribo ;
+ Ego Æðelbald filius regis consentio & subscribo ;
+ Ego Æðelric dux consentio & subscribo ;
+ Ego Ealhred dux consentio & subscribo ;
+ Ego Æðelulf dux consentio & subscribo ;
+ Ego Osric pr's ;
+ Ego Æðered monachus ;
+ Ego Beorhtnoð m' ;
+ Ego Hwita m's ;
+ Ego Berred m' ;
+ Ego Sulf presbyter ;
+ Ego Beahnoð p' ;
+ Ego Wulfhere m' ;
+ Ego Osmund m' ;
+ Ego Sideman m' ;
+ Ego Æðelmod m' ;
+ Ego Hysenoð p' ;
+ Ego Diormod p' ;
+ Ego Babba p' ;
+ Ego Burgnoð p' ;
+ Ego Duduc m' ;
+ Ego Æðelric m' ;
+ Ego Æðelhere m' ;
+ Ego Ecglaf m' ;
+ Ego Osbearht m' ;
+ Ego Gislheard m' ;
+ Ego Cynebearht m' ;
+ Ego Oba m' ;
+ Ego Heabearht m' ;
Omnes consentimus & omnium voluntas nostrorum est ;
+ Ego Æðered archiepiscopus noviter consentio ;
+ Ego Biarnhelm abbas consentio ;
+ Ego Drihtwald dux consentio ;
+ Ego Æðelwald dux consentio ;
+ Ego Eardulf p' consentio ;
+ Ego Sefreð m' ;
Et ego Liofric gebohte þæt land æt Horatune mid feower 7 twentigum mancusa ; in sempiternam hereditatem ;