S 337
A.D. 867. Edgar (? for Æthelred), king, to St Paul's Monastery; grant of 15 hides (mansiones) at Navestock, Essex. Latin.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: 1. London, Guildhall, 25501, 38r (s. xiii)
2. London, Guildhall, 25504, 5r-6r (s. xii)
3. London, St Paul's, D. & C., Liber B (lost; s. xiii)
4. Bodleian, James 23, p. 33 (s. xvii; extract)
Printed: Mon. Angl., iii. 302-3 (no. 8) ex MSS 1, 3; Dugdale, St Paul's (1st edn), pp. 186-7 ex MS 3; Dugdale, St Paul's (2nd edn), Appendix pp. 10-11; K 1259; B 1210 ex MS 1, Dugdale and Kemble; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 24; Gibbs 1939, p. 2 n. 2 ex MS 2, pp. 2-3 ex MS 4.
Comments: Stevenson 1894, authentic charter of Æthelred of Wessex; Stevenson 1904, p. 229 n. 4, a blundered charter, some witnesses seem to come from a genuine charter of c. 868; Robertson, Charters, p. 390; Gibbs 1939, p. 2 n. 2; John 1955, p. 144; Hart, ECE, no. 9, authentic charter of Æthelred of Wessex, with names of king and archbishop altered; O'Donovan 1973, p. 96; Whitelock, EHD, p. 24 n., charter of Æthelred of Wessex with the king's name altered; Whitelock 1979, pp. 85, 96 n. 46; Hart 1987/1, pp. 60, 78 n. 6; Dumville 1992, p. 5 n. 23, poorly transmitted; Keynes 1993/1, p. 129, on witnesses.
In nomine Dei summi ipsoque in perpetuum Domino nostro Iesu Christo regnante ac disponente ubique omnia sceptra quoque regalia temporaliter gubernanda distribuerit accommodauerit cui uult. Unde ego Eadgærus rex, rogatus quidem ab episcopo meo Deorwulfo et principe meo Ealdredo ut aliquam partem terre liberam darem imperpetuum in monasterium sancti Pauli apostoli doctoris gentium, id est .xv. mansiones in loco qui uocitatur Næsingstoc, et michi collato digno pretio, id est .lx. <