S 704
A.D. 962. King Edgar to Æthel...e, his minister; grant of 3 perticae at Sorley in Churchstow, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Buckfast
MSS: Chelmsford, Essex R.O., D/DP T 209 (s. x2; BA Facs., no. 6; Rose-Troup 1929, pl. 12)
Printed: Rose-Troup 1929, pp. 250-1, with translation, pp. 251-3; Hooke 1990/1, p. 210, bounds only; Hooke 1994, p. 165, bounds only.
Comments: Rose-Troup 1929, p. 253, authentic, pp. 261-6, on bounds; PN Devon, p. 296 n.; Finberg, ECDC, no. 38; Chaplais 1966, p. 14, apparent original, compares formulation with S 770 (= 1981 XV, p. 14); Finberg 1969, pp, 23-8, discussion of bounds and estate history; Hooke 1990/1, pp. 195-200, 206-7, on bounds; BA Facs., p. 4, probably contemporary but conceivably an 11th-century imitative forgery; Dumville 1994, p. 154, physical form anomalous, some problems in script; Hooke 1994, pp. 165-8, on bounds.
+ In nomine sancte trinitatis.
Imminentibus uite caducis terminis qua in nos sceleris licet onere pressi nutu diuino statuti . tamen dominica prosequentes monita prout quimus secundum illud euangelii . ubi dicitur . 'date et dabitur uobis' 1 .
Quapropter ego Eadgar rex anglorum ceterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium gubernator et rector . pro petitione nobilium meorum dedi cuidam meo ministro uocitato nomine Æþel...e . tres perticas . æternaliter . In illo loco ubi ruricole appellatiuo usu ludibundisque uocabulis nomen indiderunt. ÆTSWURD LEAGE .
quatenus habeat ac possideat uita comite hoc est quamdiu uitalis spiritus in hac erumnosa uita fragile corpus aluerit . postquam uero separatio anime a corpore fuerit quod cunctis mortalibus commune indeclinabiliter cognoscitur . Cuicumque heredi uoluerit derelinquat in æternam hereditatem . Maneatque prout iam predixeram donum istud ab omni seculari seruitio exinanitum . cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus . campis pascuis pratis siluis
exceptis istis tribus expeditione pontis arcisue constructione .
Hanc uero meam donationem quod opto absit a fidelium mentibus minuentibus atque frangentibus fiat pars eorum cum illis de quibus econtra fatur . 'discedite a me maledicti in ignem æternum qui paratus est Satane et satellitibus eius' 2 nisi hic ante digna satisfactione emendauerit .
Istis terminis ambitur predicta tellus .
þis is þæs hiwisces landgemære buton anon eahtoþan dæle ætswurd lege . Ærest of cinges br[icge] ut on afne upon stream þær riþe ut scyt up on riþ[e] to blacan pole of blacan pole on stan hyrst of stan hyrste on þæs weges bige þeliþ to beoccan bricge up on ealdan wege to pentan mæde þanon west on wege to græwan stane þanon on wyrttrum oþ þa brocas to gædre sceotaþ adune on stream to wealding forda þanon on manning ford on lanan oþ eorþburg þanon on dic oþ wulfwylles heafod on swurdleg wyll of swurdleg wylle on wagu fen þanon [o]n willerdes beorg þanon eft to cinges bricge :
Acta est hec prefata donatio. Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri iesu christi . dcccclxii . Indictione . V .
+ Ego Eadgar rex anglorum indeclinabiliter concessi .
+ Ego Dunstan archiepiscopus cum signo sancte crucis roboraui .
+ Ego Byrhthelm episcopus adquieui .
+ Ego Alfwold episcopus non renui .
+ Ego Byrhthelm episcopus .
+ Ego Osulf episcopus .
+ Ego Ælfhere dux
+ Ego Ælfheah dux
+ Ego Æþelstan dux .
+ Ego Aþelwold dux .
+ Ego Ælfwine minister .
+ Ego Cyneric minister .
+ Ego Byrhtferþ .
+ Ego Alfwold minister .
+ Ego Ealdred minister .
+ Ego Ordgar minister .