S 664
A.D. 955 x 959. King Eadwig to the church of St Peter, Bath; restoration of 5 hides (mansae) at Olveston, and 5 at Cold Ashton, Gloucs., granted to the minster by King Athelstan (cf. S 414). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 71-3 (s. xii2)
Printed: B 936; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 16-17; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 108.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 182-95, on bounds; PN Gloucs., iii., pp. xii, 112, 114-15, 119, 121-3, 136-7, 139, 211, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 103, authentic; Keynes 1985, p. 161, dubious.
De Alvestona . et Æisctona .
Cum æcclesiastes noster non solum parabolis verum etiam evidenti et perspicua re omnia mundialia frivola esse satis ostenderit et mentis perturbationem . Cur anhelando nititur cupido humani moliminis possidere ea quæ velut umbra transeunt nequaquam reversura . Set eo festinatus proficisci adgrediamur . quo finem mundi jam credimus appropinquasse . Unde veritas . 'Ambulate dum lucem habetis' 1 . Et apostolus . 'Quæ sursum sunt quærite . non quæ super terram' 2 .
Quocirca ego Eadwig basileus Albionis monarchus . viris ecclesiasticis præ cæteris operam impendere curabo . quatinus meritis et precibus sanctourm eorum numero merear conjungi in cælis . Vnde et mansas . V . æt Ælvestune . et alias . V . mansas æt Æsctune . quas patruelis meus Æþelstanus rex obtulerat æcclesiæ beati Petri apostolorum principis . quæ sita est Bathonis civitate . jam nuper tyrannide abstractas . reddere procurat imperialis nostra potestas .
et in diocesim perpetuam eidem præfatæ æcclesiæ denuo immolat et nostra condonatio .
Quominus posteritas violare audeat hoc donum Deo et apostolo oblatum .
omni regali sarcina solutum .
salva expeditione . pontis . et arcis . munitione .
Quicumque amodo hoc diripere vel in aliquo sollicitare temptaverit . anathema sit judice Christo .
Divisiones Ælvestona . Þis synd þara . V . hida land gemæru æt Alfestune . Ærest on hring wylle . of hring wylle duddingdene . andlang denes on þa ealdan mær dic . andlang dice west on gerihte on smita pull . of smita pylle west rihte on blaca ford . of blaca forda innan hreodham . of hreodhamme on cildes hammes west ende . þonne norð on gerihte to hreodwican on þa ealdan stræt . and lang stræt to norðwican . of norðwican eft and lang strete to billes ham . of billes hamme eft on gerihte innan myccla pyll . of myccla pylle on smala pyll . andlang pylles on hwita gærstune . of hwita gæ[r]stune on ða mær dic . andlang dice to mormæde norð hyrnan . þonn norð rihte on ða dic innan hola pyll . and lang hola pylles eft on ða mær dic . ðonne eft be ðære dic to ðær stanenan bricge . of þære bricge suð innan wærbyrdes croft . eall on buton . eft on þa mær dic . and lang dic to mærcumbe . and lang cumbes midwerd to ðære ealdan stræt . andlang stræte to beadan healan . of beadan healan est rihtes innan rige cumb norðe wærd to þære smalan æc . of þære æc andlang cumbes to pislege . Of pislege on doggiþorn . Of þam þorne to eadingham . of þam hamme to fotmæle . of fotmæle est rihtes on wulfputt . of þam pytte on ða wogan æc . of ðære ac on þa foryrðe eastewerde æt langalege . Of langalege to wulfhricge . of wulfhricge to grenhylle . of þam hylle to mannes dæle . of mannes dæle to æccelcumbes heafdan . þanon west rihtes on þa ealdan stan reawe to þare ealdan bec . Of ðare bec innan cucan healas on ðone æsc . of þam æsce on scypa cumb to þam broke . Andlang brokes to ðam gemære . Þonne þar norðrihtes andlang ludescumbes to þam ealdan herepaðe . west andlang herepaðes to ælla treowe . on hola wæg . of hola wæige to hafoc hylle . of hafoc hylle be þare ealdan dic eft on hring wylle .