S 550
A.D. 949. King Eadred to Wulfric, miles; grant of 12 hides (cassati) at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs., with bounds of 20 hides at Bourton, 7 hides at Maugersbury and 7 hides at Daylesford, Gloucs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Evesham
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. viii. 6 (s. xvi/xvii; BA Facs., 43)
2. BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 72v (s. xii; bounds only; with introductory sentence from S 114)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 265-6; K 426 and vol. iii. 429 ex MS 1; K 1360 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 36-7 (no. 1); B 882 ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 95.
Comments: Taylor 1894/1, pp. 296-7; Stenton 1905, p. 698, on MS 2 (= Stenton 1970, p. 1); Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 9-11, 28-30, 181-2, on bounds, 'Daylesford' survey describes part of Adlestrop; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 20-2, 49-52, 165-6, on bounds; Drögereit 1952, pp. 62-3, doubtful; PN Gloucs., i. 3, 14, 17, 165, 196-8, 207-8, 212-16, 220, 222-4, on bounds; John 1966, p. 55, on royal style; Finberg, ECWM, no. 99, authentic; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Sawyer, Burton, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is oneWhitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Fleming 1985, p. 252; Hooke 1985, pp. 87, 99, 210; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; BA Facs., p. 12, MS 1 a facsimile transcript of apparently original charter of King Eadred; Dumville 1992, p. 34 n. 21, p. 41 n. 58, unimpeachable; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Dumville 1993, p. 142, early modern script-facsimile, original apparently written in Caroline script; Dumville 1994, p. 162.
Perpetue libertatu cælesti paradiso sublimatum Sanctæ Trinitatis Dei monarchi gubernat magnopere essentia terrænæ hereditatis territoria cunctis præstat prout vult ; Hoc proculdubio prevalet + Eadredus rex Anglorum gloriossimus rectorque Norþanhymbra et paganorum imperator Brittonumque propugnator intimare Quem rex regum omnipotens regali gubernaculon? conflagravit ; Quique rex confert alacriter larga lucra lictoribus ut deinceps accipiat caritatis charismata ; Ejus donum dignanter . rite refert cum ceteris Wulfric miles de perenni huius ruris libertate quod sibi nunc atque suis contulerat heredibus perfruendum in Burgtone nuncupatum ; taliterque terminatum in . XII . cassatibus ;
+ Þis synd þara twentiges hida land gemæra to burhtune ærest of widig forda 7lang weges to pippenespenne . of pippenespenne ; 7 lang slades on turcandene . up 7lang dene to þære swelstowe syððan 7lang foss to þan ealdan sice wið slohterword . 7lang sices on wenris . 7 lang streames eft on wiðig ford : ^
+ Þonne is þis þara VII hida land ge mæra æt mæþelgares byrig þe hyrd into burghtune ; ærest of mæþelgeres byrig on deopancumb of deopancumbe on cwenena broce of cwenena broce up be þam geride . to þam beorgan . of þam beorgan on fiscwille . of fiscwille on mæswille . of mæswille on sealter pille . of sealter pille 7 lang broces to þam greatan þorne . of þam þorne on þorn beorh . of þorn beorge on foss eft 7 lang foss . þæt in on da ea on wænric . up on stream oð ðone garan suð weardne . of þam garan on horwyt of horpytte eft on foss . wid suðan þone garan . 7lang foss eft on mæþelgares byrig ;
+ Þon is þis þara VII hida land gemæra æt dægeles forda þe hirð into burgtune ; ærest of blædene on mules hlæw þæt forð up to heortdune . to hwettan stanes wylle of hwættan staneswille on heort broc of þam broce on þa stige . 7lang stige dic 7 lang dic on þa str[æ]t to þære oðere stræt . oþ þære stræt on beagan wille anlang broces eft on blædene ;
Adest annus nongente[s]imus quadragenus atque nonus dominici Incarnatus . Quartus quoque quo regebat . Eadredus Rex regimina et cum archiepiscopus ceterisque consulibus ; hanc tellurem ad Burghtune consignavit .
+ Oda . Wulfstan . Þeodred . Ælfhæh . Ælfred . Ælfric . Wulfsig . Æþelgar . Koenwald . Wulfhelm . Cynsige . Ælbred . roborabant conscribendo cum laicis . Howæl rex . Marcant regulus . Osulf bebbanbyrig . Æthelmund . Ælhelm . Vrm . Grim . Gunner . Uhtred . Ælfgar . Scule . Coll . Morcar . Wolfric . Berhtferþ . Æþelgeard . Ælfnoþ . Ælfhæh . Clare . Wigstan . atque Ælfsige . Dunstan abbas . on' Oscetel circwærd triumphali signaculo sigillabant cælotenus titulantes .
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