S 685
A.D. 960. King Edgar to Oswulf, bishop; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Stanton St Bernard, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MSS: BL Harley 436, 11r-13v (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 5-6; K 482 and vol. iii. 454; B 1053; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 119.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 82; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 210-15, bounds identical with those in S 647; Darlington 1955, p. 10 n. 51, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 290, authentic; cf. S 647, covering the same estate and in favour of the same beneficiary.
Þis his þare . XX . hida land boc æt Stantune þe Eadgar cyng gebocode Osulfe byscope on ehce yrfe .
Cunctorum sophie naturam rimantium nichil labentium mutabilitate rerum posse esse durabile monitione liquido patesscit . Et maxime ipse jam cosmus sua ipsa senectute deprimitur et quasi ad vicinam mortem cresbrescentibus malis urgetur . ut illa veridica domini sententia manifestissime promulgat dicens . 'Cum videritis hec fieri Scitote quia regnum Dei appropinquabit' 1 .
Idcirco ego Eadgar Anglorum . ceterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium altithrono disponente prout voluit gubernator et rector . Hec et cetera corculi archano nostri volutans . huius perpendens practice vite opulentia fore ditatum ut his fruens manentia largus lucrarer . uni meo devotissimo antistiti atque precessoribus amabilissimo . cujus nomen certa astipulatione . Osulf . profertur . cujusdam telluris particulam . XX . silicet mansas in loco qui a solicolis notum sumpsit vocabulum . Stantun . perpetua largitus sum donatione .
quatenus cum omnibus que Deus celorum in ipso telluris gramine conscesserit . pratis videlicet pascuis silvis jugiter possideat . et post vite sue obitum quibuscumque voluerit heredi petis relinquat . Sit autem predicta tellus omni presentis vite jugo solutum
excepta justa expeditione et pontis et arcis munimen .
Quod si quisque quod non contingat demonica tursus audatia meam hanc dapsilitatem adnichilare mutareve conatus fuerit . a consortio future beatitudinis et certe requiei sequestratum se esse cognoscat . et ignum flammis medio projectus penas lugubris infinitas suscipiat . nisi hic largifluo lacrimarum rivo emendaverit quod contra nostra instituta agere presumsit .
His metis prefatum rus hinc inde gyratur ;
Þis synt þa land gemære to stantune . Ærest of holan wylle on þa ruwan hola þonne on þone ealdan weg up to þam hæþenan byrgelse . þonon on þryfyld dene of þære dene on þone scearpan stan . þonon on cobben stan . of þan stane on ane hlinc ræwe oþ hit cymð to blacan grafum þonon on þone mær stan . of þam stane on ða foxholu . þonne on þane stanigan beorh on þorndune norþewearde of þam beorge on þa stanas 7lang dene neoðewearde of þam on anne stan . þonon on anne þorn . þonon on þa wearh rode . on wodnes dic . þonon on þa ealdan burh middewearde . of þære ealdan on oxna mere þonon on anne crundel lið an stan ond of þam stane on þone midmestan hrycg on east cumbum . þonne on east mores heafod to þam hæþenan byrgelse on brom lace þonne and lang streames eft on holan wylle .
Anno dominice incarnatinois . DCCCCLX . Scripta est hec carta his testibus consentientibus quorum inferius nomina caraxantur ;
Ego Eadgar Anglorum basileus corroboravi .
Ego Dunstan archiepiscopus . confirmavi .
Ego Oscytel archiepiscopus . consolidavi .
Ego Aþufl episcopus . corroboravi .
Ego Byrhelm episcopus . confirmavi .
Ego Alfwold episcopus . adquievi .
Ego Aþelwold abbas .
Ego Ælfhere dux .
Ego Ælfheah dux .
Ego Aþelstan dux .
Ego Eadmund dux .
Ego Aþelwold dux .
Ego Ælfgar miles testis .
Ego Ælfwine miles testis .
Ego Byrhtferð miles testis .
Ego Æþelsige miles testis .
Ego Eadric miles testis .
Ego Wulfgar miles testis .
Ego Osweard miles testis .
Ego Oswig miles testis .
Ego Osulf miles testis .
Ego Ealdred miles testis .
Ego Eadred miles testis .
Þis his þa landes boc æt Stantune .