S 568
A.D. 955. King Eadred to Dunstan, abbot; grant of 25 hides (cassati) at Badbury, Wilts., in return for 150 gold solidi. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 207r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 242r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 67 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 842, ex MS 2; K 434 and vol. vi. 235-6 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 51 (no. 102); B 904 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 676 (no. 1244) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 205-10, bounds cover parish of Chisledon, including Badbury; Barker 1949, p. 73, looks genuine; Forsberg 1950, p. 7, bounds describe eastern part of Chisledon, i.e. the former manor of Badbury; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 273, authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, pp. 46-8, on charter-type; Carley 1985, p. 40, 124; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. p. 174; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 33, 39, on MS sources, pp. 52-3, on estate.
Baddeburi .
Carta Eddredi regis facta Dunstano abbati de Baddeborwe .
Anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DC . C . C . C . LV .
ego Eddred divina gracia favente rex et primicerius tocius Albionis Dunstano abbati meo ob ejus amabile et fidele obsequium hoc est CL . solidos auri ruris particulam sub estimacione . viginti quinque cassatorum in loco qui dicitur Baddeburi libenter . admodum concessi et tenore huius munificencie donum perstringens .
ut post obitum suum imperpetuum cuicumque voluerit heredi derelinquat
quod si quisque quod non optamus huiusce donacionis cartulam infringere temptaverit nisi prius emendaverit nisi prius in hoc seculo digne castigetur in futuro perhenni cruciatu prematur
Et hiis limitibus . hec telluris particula circumgirata videtur .
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Huius domi constipulatorum nomina inferius notata videntur .
+ Ego Oda archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego Wulstan archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi cum multis aliis .