S 643
A.D. 957. King Eadwig to St Peter's Abbey, Bath; grant, at the request of his sacerdos Wulfgar, of 10 hides (mansae) at Bathford, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 75*-77 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 463 and vol. iii. 451; B 1001; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 22-3; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 110.
Comments: Skrine 1883; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 215-16, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 476, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 69 n. 134, on formulation.
De Forda .
Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo .
Omnibus namque sapientibus notum ac manifestum constat . quod dicta futura vel facta pro multiplici erumpnarum perturbatione et cogitationum vagatione frequenter ex memoria recedunt . nisi litterarum apicibus et custodiæ cautela reserventur . et ad memoriam revocentur .
Iccirco ego Eadwig . rex Anglorum cæterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium gubernator ex rector . cenobitis consistentibus atque Deo servientibus in monasterio sancti Petri apostolorum principis quod in Bathonia mira fabrica constructum cognoscitur . X . mansas pro salute atque remedio animæ meæ perpetualiter concedo . cum consensu meorum heroicorum . et petitione mei venerandi sacerdotis Wulfgari . in loco ubi antiquorum relatu nominatur æt Forda ,
ut sit prædicta donatio immunis ab omni fiscali tributo . et vectigali regali .
excepto communi labore expeditionis . pontis . arcisque munimine .
cum omnibus quæ sibi rite pertinent . tam in Campis . pratis . pascuis . nemorumque densitate . quam in magnis et in minimis .
Si quis vero hoc nostrum karisma aliqua machinatione infringere conatus fuerit . veniam non hic mereatur . nec in futuro regni cælestis clavigeram propitium habeat ; nisi prius hic ad satisfactionem venire maluerit .
Istis terminis hæc tellus ambita videtur .
Divisiones. Þis synd þa land gemæra to Forda . Ærest of Afene andlang stræt on þane anne stan . of þam stane on beonnan lehe . Of beonnan lehe innan wæfer . Andlang wæfer on wibyrht leage . Of wibyrht leage on hnæs leage . Of hnæs leage on cunuca leage . Of cunuca leage ut on afene .
Hæc carta scripta est anno dominicæ incarnationis . DCCCCLVII o . Indictione . XV a .
Ego Eadwig rex Anglorum indeclinabiliter concessi . + .
Ego Eadgar ejusdem regis frater celeriter consensi . + .
Ego Odo Archiepiscopus cum signo sanctæ crucis roboravi . + .
Ego Ælfsinus presul sigillum agye crucis impressi . + .
Ego Byrhtelm episcopus confirmavi . + .
Ego Cenwald episcopus acquievi . + .
Ego Oscytel episcopus consignavi . + .
Ego Osulf episcopus corroboravi . + .
Ego Alfwold episcopus consensi . + .
Ego Aþulf episcopus subscripsi . + .
Ego Daniel episcopus conclusi . + .
Æðelstan dux . + .
Eadmund dux . + .
Ælfhere dux . + .
Æþelsige dux . + .
Æþelwold dux . + .
Byrhtnoð dux . + .
Ælfheah minister . + .
Ælfsige minister . + .
Ælfwine minister . + .
Æþelgeard minister . + .
Ælfred minister . + .
Ælfric minister . + .
Ælfsige minister . + .
Ælfwig minister . + .
Wulfgar minister . + .
Ælfgar minister . + .
Byrhtferd minister . + .
Æðelmær minister . + .
Wulfric minister . + .
Wulfstan minister . + .
Eadric minister . + .
Byrnric minister . + .