S 562
A.D. 953. King Eadred to Eadgifu, famula Dei and his mother; grant of 30 hides (mansiones) at Felpham, Sussex. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MSS: BL Harley 61, 12rv (s. xv)
Printed: K 432 and vol. iii. 431; B 898; Barker 1949, pp. 71-2, with translation; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 17.
Comments: PN Sussex, i. 93, 105, 117-18, 142; Barker 1949, pp. 72-3; O'Donovan 1972, p. 37; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B'; Tittensor 1977, pp. 351-2; Keynes 1980, pp. 46-8, on charter-type; Gardiner 1984, p. 77; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. p. 173; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 71-2, authentic.
Rubric: Sub presentis tituli conscripcione Adredus rex .xxx. mansiones iuxta Felcham adiacentes omni tempore dare conscripsit.
Anno ab incarnacione Domini nostri Iesu Christi .dccccliii. Ego Adred rex Christo perpetualiter superni numinis intuitu subtronizato preregente et eque illo confauente tocius Albionis primecherius et famose famule Dei Adgiue matri mee, sub instinctu diuini timoris, terre particulam sub estimacione .xxx. mansionum in loco qui dicitur Felhham libenter admodum imperpetuum cui sibi placuerit derelinquendi concedo et hiis limitibus hec telluris particula libera preter arcem, pontem, expedicionem, circumgirari uidetur.
Arest of elmerespole on biken muþe, swo anlang brines fleotes to tilbirhtes forde, swo on sa, of sa on þane stapel, of þanne stapele eft in tilbirhtes forde, of þanne forde eft þanen on stanford, of stanforde eft on almerspol.
Et hec sunt pascua porcorum. Quatuor mansiones in loco qui dicitur et Boganora at Hidhirst in silua et in communi silua pascuale quod dicitur Palinga schittas. Et huius munificencie constipulaciones sunt, nomina quorum infra conrecitari uidentur. Huius doni munificenciam signo crucis corroboro.
Ego Odo Christi ecclesie archon. +
Ego Alured episcopus consensi et subscripsi. +
Ego Athelgar episcopus et ceteri multi. +