S 713
A.D. 963. King Edgar to Æthelsige, his camerarius; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at 'Sparsholt' (i.e. Fawler), one hide at Balking and a mill at Hirdegrafe (probably in Steventon), Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 69v-70r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. B vi, 116r (s. xiii; abbreviated; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 134r (s. xii; abbreviated; no bounds)
4. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 201rv (s. xii; bounds only)
5. Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 255, 62r (s. xvii)
Printed: K 1247 ex MSS 1, 2; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 283-5, 478-9; B 1121 ex MSS 1, 4; B 1122 ex MS 2; PN Berks., iii. 691, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 97.
Comments: Grundy, Berks. 1927, pp. 33-8, on bounds; PN Berks., i. 17, ii. 372, 379, 380, 418, 489, iii. 677, 691-2, bounds probably describe western half of modern parish of Kingston Lisle; Gelling, ECTV, no. 99, authentic; Hooke 1987, pp. 99-100, on detail of topography; Hooke et al. 1987, on topography; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 97, authentic.
C. BL Cotton Claudius C. ix, 134r: copy, s. xii
Rubric: Carta de Speresholt .x. cassatorum.
C*. BL Cotton Claudius C. ix, 201rv: copy of bounds, s. xii
Rubric: Termini .x. cassatorum ad Speresholt.
D1. BL Cotton Claudius B. vi, 69v-70r: copy, s. xiii
Rubric: Carta regis Edgari de Spersholt .x. cassatarum
D2. BL Cotton Claudius B. vi, 116r: copy, s. xiii
Rubric: Carta de Speresholt .x. cassatarum.
Quecumque enim secundum decreta canonum atque ecclesiastica instituta salubri consilio definiuntur, quamquam sermo tantum absque textu sufficeret, tamen quoniam plerumque nostris temporibus tempestates et turbines secularium rerum etiam portas ecclesie pulsat. Idcirco opere precium censuimus ob cautelam futurorum ea que definita sunt paginis scripturarum adnectere ne in posterum obliuione tradita ignorentur. Quapropter ego Eadgar regali fretus a Domino dignitate quandam ruris particulam .x. uidelicet mansas in loco qui dicitur æt Speresholte et unam mansam cum .xii. agrorum quantitate qui sunt in loco qui Baðalacing dicitur, etiam et unum molendinum æt Hirdegrafe cum .xii. agrorum portionem pertinentem ad ipsum molendinum, camerario meo uocitato Æþelsie perpetua largitus sum hereditate. Tali autem tenore tradendo concessi ut possideat usque ad ultimum uite sue cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus, campis, pratis, pascuis, siluis, et post se cuicumque uoluerit heredi in perpetuum ius derelinquat. Sit autem predicta terra libera ab omni regali tributo preter expeditionem et pontis arcisue construccionem. Si quis uero cupiditate inlectus temptauerit inritam facere aut frangere huius decreti diffinitionem, sciat se in tremendo examine rationem redditurum. His autem limitibus prefatum rus undique circumgirari uidetur.
Erest at sunemannes wyrðige, of þam wyrðige on gerihte on þa heafod stoccas, of þan heafod stoccum on þone rugan hlinc niþewearde, þonon on gerihte on bryxstanes garan suþeweardan, of þam garan on duddes dene, of þere dene on þone ealdan garan suðewearden, þonon on gerihte on þa bradan stanas, of þan stanun on hodan hlæw, of þan hlæwe on hremnes byrig westwardon, of hremnes byrig on leacumb, þonon rihte 7lang streames þæt on teale burnan, 7lang teale burnan þæt on þa riþe, 7lang riþe on þone þorn stub on bulan dic, 7lang dices on þæs cinges scypena, of þan scypenum on þæt riscbed, of þan risc bedde on þæs cingesn þornas, þonon on gerihte on þæt bean furlang, þonon on snelles [hlince] ufeweardan, of snelles hlince þæt eft on sunemannes weorðig, 7 þær hyrð in an hyrde wic æt Baðalacing 7 an hid landes 7 xii. æceras mæde 7 an miln æt Hyrdegrafe 7 .xii. æceres landes.
Scripta est hec scedula anno ab incarnatione Domini .dcccclxiii. et huius doni constipulatores exstiterunt quorum inferius nomina scripta uidentur.
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