S 566

A.D. 955. King Eadred to Ælfsige Hunlafing, thegn; grant of 5 hides at Alwalton, Hunts. English with bounds.

Archive: Peterborough

MSS: London, Soc. Ant., 60, 51r-52r (s. xii)

Printed: K 433, without bounds; B 909; Robertson, Charters, no. 30 (pp. 56-9), with translation.

Comments: Plummer 1899, p. 154, genuine; PN Hunts., pp. 180, 181, 193, 195; Robertson, Charters, pp. 311-14, probably Translated from Latin; Drögereit 1952, p. 63 n. 23, p. 64 n. 29, p. 66; Hart, ECEE, no. 7, authentic, bounds cover whole of Alwalton; John 1966, p. 55, on royal style, authenticity not in doubt; Hart 1972, p. 126 n. 12, probably translation of 'alliterative' charter, cf. S 574; Keynes 1978, p. 171, on valediction; Dumville 1979, p. 7 n. 1; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, on 'alliterative' charters; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, defends 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on charter-type; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on charter-type; Hart 1992, pp. 131-45, on charter-type, see esp. p. 434.

En onomatis cyrion doxa . Al wisdom ge for Gode ge for werolde is gestaðelad on þæm hefonlican goldhorde almæhtiges Godes per Ihesum Christum cooperante gratia spiritus sancti. He hafað geweorðad mid cynedome Angulseaxna Eadred cyning 7 casere totius Brittannie Deo gratias . for ðem weolegað 7 arað gehadade 7 læwede þa ðe mid rihte magon geærnian . þet mæg to soðe seggan ðes þegn Ælfsige Hunlafing be þere geagnunga þisses landes fif hida æt Æþelwoldingtune elces þinges to freon him 7 his erfeweardum . buton burhbote bryggeweorces . 7 ferdnoðes . geþencend londagende : Ciricsceat . saulsceat . 7 teogeðunga. Þus trymeð 7 streongað se forespecena kyng mid Cristes rode tacne 7 his weotena hondsetena his geofa ecelice to habbene 7 to syllene micclum þingum 7 medmiclum to belimpendum. Eadred cyng þy teogeðan gere þes ðe he gehalgad wes gesette þas handsetene. Anno dominice incarnationis .DCCCCLV.

Oda ærcabiscup . Wulstan p'sul . Ælfsige biscup . Wulfsie pontifex . Oscetel antistes . Cynsige biscup . Osulf p'sul . Koeuulad monachus . Wulfelm pont' . Berhtsige biscup . Berhthelm p'sul . Ælfuuld ant' . Edgefu euax . Eadwi æþeling . 7 Eadgar . Morcant regl' . 7 Owen . Syferð 7 Iacob . Eadmund dux . 7 Eþelmund.

Þes landes is into Æþelwoldingtune .V. hida . 7 þis synd þa landgemæru . On Earninga stræte æt þam stapelan . 7 þonne norþ æfter strate to þere dic . On Ceastertuninga gemærie 7langes þere dic in on þa ea to healfan strame . 7 ðonne eft andlanges þere ea to goldege . 7 þonne of goldege to ofertuninga gemere . 7 þonne suð be þen Æfden 7lang þere mære to fægran broce . 7 þonne up 7lang ðes broces to þere smalan ryðige . 7 ðonne suð efter þem riðige to þem mære . 7 swa suðrihte to þem litle lawe . 7 þonne get suðrihte on þa lytlan þyrnan . 7 of þere þyrnan westrihte to þem coppedan þonne eft on earninga stræte.

Eadred cyning biddeð 7 halsað on þere halgan þrinnesse noman Dei patris et filii et spiritus sancti þet nan man þurh diofles searucræft geðristlece his cynelican gefe on woh gewonian . gif hit hwa do gewrecen hit dioflu on helle witan butan he hit ær gebete for Gode and for weorlde swa him riht wisie. Pax Christi nobiscum Amen.