S 580
A.D. 946 x 955. King Eadred to Wulfheah, his man; grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Little Langford, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 86r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 97rv (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 62 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: B 901 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 201 (no. 326) ex MS 1.
Comments: Darlington 1955, p. 97; Finberg, ECW, no. 270, authentic, probably Little Langford; Scott 1981, pp. 116, 202 n. 112; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 33, 37, on MS sources, pp. 158-60, on estate, p. 320 n. 11, on missing bounds; cf. Wil 1 (S 1811).
Notes: Bounds, dating clause and witness-list omitted by cartularist.
In nomine Dei summi et salvatoris Jhesu Christi .
Agonista sanctæ prædicationis ortator talem protulit sententiam dicens . 'Omnia nuda et aperta coram oculis Dei' 1 et a luce prima usque conticinium uniuscujusque actus prospicit .
Ideo ego Eaddredus rex Anglorum ceterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium gubernator et rector . dedi cuidam meo hoc vocitato nomine Wlfheah . unam mansam atte Langeforth
eatenus ut hoc diebus suis possideat tramitibus vitæ suæ . et post se cuicumque voluerit heredi derelinquat eternaliter . maneatque prout jam prædixeram donum istud ab omni seculari servitio exinanitum cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus campis . pasturis . paschuis .
exceptis istis tribus . expeditione pontis arcisve constructione .
Si quis autem quod non optamus . hanc nostram diffinitionem elationis habitu incedens infringere temptaverit . perpessus sit gelidis glaciarum flatibus et pennino exercitu malignorum spirituum nisi prius irriguis penetentiæ gemitibus et pura emendatione emendaverit .