S 610
A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to St Peter's Abbey, Bath, and to Wulfgar, abbot; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Tidenham, Gloucs., of which 3 are to belong to the abbot. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 57-8 (s. xii2)
2. BL Lansdowne 863, 89v (s. xvi)
Printed: K 452 and vol. iii. 444; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 264 (no. 4); B 927; Earle, pp. 375-6, bounds only; Hunt, Bath. Carts., pp. 5-6.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 239-43, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 11, 14; iii. 268-9, 369; Finberg, ECWM, no. 101, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 414 n. 4, pp. 511-12, cited; Keynes 1980, pp. 59-60, 66, 67 n. 127, 'Group Four'; cf. S 1426, 1555.
De Dyddenham .
Anno vero dominicæ incarnationis . DCCCCLVI . indictione . XV .
Ego Ædwie omnicreantis disponente clementia Angligenarum omniumque gentium undique secus habitantium Rex . divino ductus amore . ab eodem Deo et Domino nostro populis . et tribubus præordinatus in regem . Anno imperii mei primo . non immemor fui quomodo et quam mirabiliter omnia supernus rector formæ rationis serie gubernat atque custodit .
Iccirco ad monasterium sancti Petri quod situm est in Bathonia ubi termæ amenæ calidis e fontibus dirivantur . XXX . mansas in hereditatem tribuo perhennem . ex quibus meo videlicet sacerdote Wulfgaro . qui præest supradicto monasterio pro ejus fideli obsequio et devotione . tres tantum cassatos . perpetim impertio . illo in loco qui a rurigenis prænominatur æt Dyddanhame .
Quatinus ejusdem monasterii choors indesinenter cum jocunditate quamdiu christianitas in hac Albionis insula viguerit meam regalem donationem feliciter possideat . cum omnibus quæ ad eundem locum jure pertinere dinoscuntur . tam in magnis quam in modicis rebus . Campis . Pascuis . Pratis . Silvis . Capturis piscium . Sit autem prædictum rus liberum ab omni mundiali obstaculo .
exceptis istis tribus . Expeditione . pontis . arcisve constructione .
Si qui denique mihi non optanti hanc cartam cupiditatis livore depressi violari satagerint ; agminibus tetræ caliginis lapsi vocem audiant examinationis die arbitris sibi dicentis . 'Discedite a me maledicti in ignem eternum'1 . ubi cum demonibus ferreis sartaginibus crudeli torqueantur in pæna si non ante mortem digna hoc emandaverint pænitentia .
Divisiones. Istis terminis prædicta terra circumgirata esse videtur .
þis synd þa land gemæra to dyddan hamme . Of wægemuþan to iwes heafdan . of iwes heafdan on stan ræwe . of stan ræwe on hwitan heal . of hwitan heale on iwdene . of iwdene . on bradan mor . of bradan more on twyfyrd . of twyfyrde on æst ege pul ut innan sæfern .
Ego Ædwig Rex Anglorum indeclinabiliter concessi : + :
Ego Eadgar ejusdem regis frater celeriter consensi : + :
Ego Oda archiepiscopus cum signo sanctæ Crucis impressi : + :
Ego Ælfsinus presul sigillum agyæ crucis impressi : + :
Ego Byrhtelm episcopus confirmavi : + :
Ego Cenwald episcopus adquievi : + :
Ego Oscytel episcopus non renui : + :
Ego Osulf episcopus consignavi : + :
Ego Bryhtelm episcopus corroboravi : + :
Ego Wulfsige episcopus consensi : + :
Ego Ælfwold episcopus conclusi : + :
Ego Daniel episcopus subscripsi : + :
Æðelstan dux : + :
Ædmund dux : + :
Ælfhere dux : + :
Æþelsige dux : + :
Æþelwold dux : + :
Byrhtnoð dux : + :
Ælfheah minister .
Ælfsige minister .
Ælfgar minister .
Byrhtferð minister .
Ælfred minister .
Æþelgeard minister .
Ælfwine minister .
Ælfric minister .
Ælfsige minister .
Ædric minister .
Byrnric minister .
Wulfgar minister .
Wulfric minister .
Ælfwig minister .