S 541
A.D. 948. King Eadred to Wulfric, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Idmiston, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 202rv (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 234r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 105 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: Hoare, Wilts., Hundred of Alderbury, p. 56; K 419 and vol. vi. 233 ex MS2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn) i. 58-9 (no. 127) ex MS 2; B 867 ex K and MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 91; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 643-48 (no. 1197) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 16-19, fails to trace bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 267, authentic; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Abrams 1996, pp. 10, 30, 34, 39, on MS sources, pp. 143-5, on estate.
Carta Eddredi regis facta Wolfrico de . V. mansis in loco qui dicitur Idemestone .
In nomine Dei summi et altissimi Jhesu Christi .
Agonista sancte predicacionis ortator talem protulit sentenciam dicens . 'omnia nuda et aperta sunt coram oculis Dei' 1 . et a luce prima usque conticinium uniuscujusque actus prospicit . qui monarchiam tocius mundi ac celsitudinem celorum abditamque profunditatem cum sue majestatis imperio nunc et in evum gubernat .
Quapropter Ego Eddredus Rex Anglorum ceterarumque gencium in circuitu persistencium gubernator et rector cuidam meo fideli ministro vocitato nomine Wlfrico dedi quinque mansas aseluli in illo loco ubi jam dudum sollicole illius regionis nomen imposuerunt . at Idemestone .
tali autem tenore hoc prefatæ munificencie munus tradendo concessi ut possideat et firmiter teneat usque ad ultimum cursum vite sue cum omnibus utensilibus que Deus celorum in ipso telluris gramine creavit tam in notis causis quam ignotis in modicis et in magnis campis paschuis pratis silvis donans donabo libertatem . et postquam humani generis fragilitatem deseruerit et ad desiderabilem jocunditatis viam per graciam superni judicis adierit succedencium sibi cuicumque libuerit eternaliter derelinquat seu superius prenotavi . Sit autem predictum rus liber ab omni fiscali tributo seculariumque servitutum
sine expedicione et pontis arcisve instructione .
Si quis hoc propria temeritate violenter invadere presumpserit sciat se proculdubio ante tribunal districti judicis titubantem tremebundumque racioni redditurum nisi prius hic digna satisfactione emendare maluerit .
Acta est hec prefata donacio anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . D . C . C . C . C . XLVIII . indictione . VI .
Hiis igitur terminis prefatum Rus usquequaque circumgirare videtur .
Þes beth þe land mere to Idemestone þare . X . hide . Erest to þan elde were . of þan elde were endlanges þar wiresheued to þan weie . of þan weie wires ouer þan dene to þan holon of þan holon to Piscrundel þanen on þan wey endlang weies on þan dich corf . and forth ouer wirfuldoune suthward to þan crundele þanen endelang weies at litelhulle to þan stane þanne vp ouer handoune to þan birgilsond . þanen vp on menhulle of menhulle est to þer strete endlang þer strete to ernebergh' þanne south to þa stone . of þan stone ouer hendoune on þe furs . endlang þer furgh's to þan bourne þanen endlang borne as hit schet vp to þan knolle at Smalwey þanne west to kingesdich for to hit kemet to fimbergh' þanen þer north endelang weyes on hehelmeslandschere þanne endlang wei wires ouer brouningbergh' northward on northond þe weies . X . acres þanen on þe dich þar hit geth eft on þe eldewere .
Sicuti tres sunt carte sic tres sunt situs bundarum quos in libro qui dicitur land bok . qui voluerit legere poterit .