S 555
A.D. 951. King Eadred to Ælfhere, his kinsman; grant of 20 hides (mansiunculae) at Buckland (Denham), Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 196r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 224r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 116 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: B 889 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 610 (no. 1134) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset 1939, p. 68, unable to identify bounds; Barker 1949, p. 73, seems genuine; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. p. ccvi, associates with Buckland Newton in Dorset; Ekwall, DEPN, pp. 72, 276, identifies as Buckland Denham, Somerset, mention of Kilmersdon in bounds confirms this; Finberg, ECW, no. 466, authentic, accepts as Buckland Denham; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 164, cited (= 1973, p. 47); Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B', p. 384, cf. GL 79 (S 1737); Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 40, probably authentic, p. 48 n. 87; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. pp. 173, 185; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 34, 39, on MS sources, pp. 63-4, on estate history, accepts Buckland Denham identification, pp. 189, 345.
Carta Eddredi regis facta Elfero suo propinquo de Boclonde .
Anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . D . CCCC . LI .
Ego Edred alubescente gracia Dei rex primicerius tocius Albionis ruris quondam particulam bis denis ab accolis estimatam mansiunculis in loco qui dicitur Boclande liberam preter arcem pontem expedicionemque . Elfere propinquo meo in eternam pos[s]essionem libenter admodum largitus sum sine hoc precipiens quatinus nostrorum Christiano vigente imperio nemo succesorum hoc nostrum donum sine vindicta Dei audeat violare .
et hiis limitibus hec telluris prefate pars circumquaque cingi videtur .
Erest on bosanstok' on frisingmede þanen on Murstanwere of þan were on plimenforde of þan ford' on Carswelle of þan welle on brokanberwe on þan berwe on kunemersdone of þer donne on on Wlfbergh' of þan berghe on vrowandeswelle .
Et huius doni testes exstiterunt quorum inferius nomina subscribuntur .
+ Et ego Eddred rex hoc donum meum signo sancte crucis confirmavi .
+ Ego Oda archiepiscopus hoc donum signo crucis perstrinxi .
+ Ego Dunstan abbas consensi et scribere jussi sub testimonio multorum .