S 388
A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to St Petroc's minster; grant of 1 hide (cassatus) at Newton St Petroc, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: 1. Exeter, D. & C., 2518 (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 3)
2. BL Lansdowne 966, 70rv (s. xvii)
Printed: Davidson 1883, pp. 268-9; B 725; Earle, pp. 325-6; Hooke 1994, pp. 145-6, bounds only.
Comments: Davidson 1883, p. 268, substitute for original; PN Devon, p. 101 n. 1; Rose-Troup 1933, pp. 124-5, on bounds; Finberg, ECDC, no. 25, 11th-century reconstruction, a blunder because this gift really dates from Eadred's reign; Chaplais 1966, p. 12 (no. 11), spurious, probably written in third quarter of 11th century, mutatis mutandis a replica of S 433, supposed confirmation by Eadred unlikely to be authentic (= 1981 XV, p. 12); Blake 1974, pp. 51-2, probably forged in time of Bishop Leofric; Padel 1978, p. 26 n. 23, probably spurious; Dumville 1979, p. 8, on terminology; Hooke 1994, pp. 144-7, on bounds.
Endorsements in various hands:
Ethelstan de Niwantun dato sancto Petroco
Carta Ædelstani Regis de terris in Cornubia
+ Anno dominicæ incarnationis dclxx . Indictione . xi . Ego Æðelstan rex totius Bryttanniæ insulæ dabo pro æterna retributione et pro expiatione animæ meæ unum cassatum in loco ubi ab incolis vocitatur æt Nywantune Deo et sancto confessori Petroco . ad monasterium ejusdem sancti . ut habeat quamdiu fides catholica in gente Anglorum permaneat . Precipimus et obsecramus in Dei omnipotentis nomine et in sanctæ trinitatis honore . ut nullus hominum in aliquo tempore umquam ausus fuerit hanc nostram donationem minuere aut frangere in aliquo . sed semper stabilis et inconcussa permaneat . tam Deo quam hominibus usque in æternum tempus .
Si quis autem hoc munus in aliquo . frangere vel minuere temptaverit . sciat se coram Deo et sanctis ejus rationem redditurum . nisi hic prius celeriter emendet coram idoneis testibus .
Huius agelluli termini hi sunt . Þis sind þa landgemæro to nywantune . Ærest on wuduford . þonne upp on stream oð þone lyttlan broc . þonne andlang broces oð hreodmores heafod . þonne on gerihte suð ofer dune to loddan broces æwylman . þonne adune on loddan broces stream oð toric . þonne upp on toric stream eft to wuduforda .
+ Ego Æðelstan rex Anglorum hanc nostram donationem signo crucis impressi .
+ Ego Eadmund indolis clito consilium dedi .
+ Ego Wulfhelm archiepiscopus consolidavi .
+ Ego Þeodred episcopus subscripsi .
+ Ego Ælfheah episcopus adquievi .
+ Ego Brihthelm episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Eadhelm episcopus favi .
+ Ego Æþelgar episcopus conclusi .
+ Æðelstan dux .
+ Ælfhere dux .
+ Eadmund dux .
+ Eðelsie dux .
+ Odda minister .
+ Wihtmund minister .
+ Æðelmod minister .
+ Deormod minister .
+ Wulfgar minister .
+ Osulf minister .