S 636
A.D. 956 (ii). King Eadwig to Wulfric, his princeps; grant of 7 hides (cassati) at Millbrook, with a haga in Southampton, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. viii. 12 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 21)
2. BL Add. 15350, 63v-64r (s. xii)
3. BL Add. 15350, 78rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 450 ex MS 1; B 926 ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 194-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 103.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 242-4, on bounds; Barker 1949, p. 77, contemporary; Burgess 1964; Finberg, ECW, no. 78, original; Ker, Catalogue, p. lix, scribe of MS 1 probably wrote 951 annal in Parker Chronicle (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 173); Chaplais 1965, p. 57 n. 81, pp. 59-60, original, Winchester scribe (= 1973, p. 38 n. 81, pp. 41-2); Hart 1970/1, p. 31 (no. 110), p. 33 (no. 136), original; Keynes 1980, pp. 20-1, 25, 54-5, 65, 'Group Two', p. 67, on scribe, p. 68 n. 131, on chrismon; Chaplais 1985, p. 49, restates Winchester attribution of scribe; Dumville 1992, pp. 63-4 and n. 63, queries attribution of scribe and script to Winchester, S 636 a royal-chancery product; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script; Hough 1996, on element in bounds.
Endorsements:
(1) in a contemporary hand: + þis is þara . VII . hida boc æt Melebroce þe Eadwig cing gebocode Wulfrice his þegne on ece yrfe .
(2) in a hand of late s. xv: VII hyda in Mylbrooke . saxon .
Px Anno heroicæ incarnationis DCCCCLVI . Indictione . XIIII .
Eadwig numine cælesti gentis Geuuisorum orientaliumque nec non occidentalium simul etiam aquilonalium Saxonum archons cuidam meorum principum quem nonnulli vocitant noto vocamine . Wvlfric . VII . cassatos perpetualiter trado . illic ubi vulgariter dicitur . æt Melebroce .
quandiu hic corpus animatum habere videbitur nostri doni privilegium sibi vendicet et postero denique suo quemcumque elegerit pereniter impertiat cum campis . pascuis . pratis . silvis . Hæc tellus a cuncto sit immunis servitu
nisi pontis . et arcis . ac expeditionis juvamine .
Si quis autem infringere temptaverit quod absit . sciat se rationem redditurum coram Deo et angelis ejus . nisi prius hic digna satisfactione emendare satagerit .
Istis terminis ambitur prædicta tellus .
þis synt þa land gemæro to melebroce . ærest of hreodbrycge 7lang st'r'æte on fearninga broce 7lang mearce on melebroces ford east 7lang mearce on þunres lea norþeweardne þonon 7lang weges on cinges dic þonon 7lang mearce on holan weg of þam wege on þa ea oþ midne stream 7lang streames on hreodbrycge . 7 se haga an ham tune þe þærto gebyret .
+ Ego Eadwig rex Anglorum indeclinabiliter concessi .
+ Ego Eadgar ejusdem regis frater consensi .
+ Ego Oda archiepiscopus cum signo sanctæ crucis + roboravi .
+ Ego Ælfsinus presul sigillum agiæ crucis + impressi .
+ Ego Oscytel episcopus consignavi .
+ Ego Osulf episcopus adquievi .
+ Ego Wulfsige episcopus subscripsi .
+ Ego Byrhthelm episcopus conclusi .
+ Æþelstan dux .
+ Eadmund dux .
+ Byrhtferþ dux .
+ Ælfhere dux .
+ Ælfsige minister .
+ Wulfric minister .
+ Æþelgeard minister .
+ Ælfheah minister .
+ Ælfgar minister .
+ Byrhtferþ minister .
+ Ælfred minister .