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S 735

A.D. 965. King Edgar to Æscwig, abbot of St Peter's, Bath; grant of 7.5 hides (mansiunculae) at Stanton Prior, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.

Archive: Bath

MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 82-4 (s. xii²)

Printed: K 516; B 1164; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 27-8.

Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 193-5, on bounds; Turner 1951, on place-names; Finberg, ECW, no. 491, authentic; HRH, p. 230, ? genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, on charter-type; Costen 1983, pp. 30-1, on bounds; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. p. 177, probably authentic.

De Stantona .

Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DCCCCLXV ^o .

Ego Eadgar divina allubescente gratia rex et primicherius totius Albionis ruris partem aliquantulam bis quaternis preter semissem æstimatam mansiunculis in loco qui dicitur Stantun . Æscwig abbati ad æcclesiam sancti Petri que sita . est in urbe Achumanensi in perpetuam possessionem libenter admodum largitus sum .

Deprecor namque hunc abbatem . omnesque qui huius singraphæ inspexerint dictamina . ut suarum precum pro me non cessent fundere oramina .

Et his limitibus hæc telluris particula .

preter arcem . pontem . expeditionem .

libera circumgirari videtur .

Divisio. Erest æt wiðig mæde on þone weg oð hit sticað on ðære ealdan stanbricge . syððan be onheafdan od winces burch on þa ealdan dic . of ðære dic on edbyrhting leage . of ðære leage be wyrt walan oð wodnes die . Of ðere dic þes upp on þone wudu oððone ealdan wæg . Andlang wæges . on ealdan lege . Of þære leage on cilda stan . Of þæm stane 7 lang hricges on þone ealdan weall . Of þæm weall to steorte þanon on corsan . Be corsan andlang streames on þone sweliend . Of þæm sweliende andlang broces on ða ealdan dic . Of þære dic . on þone ealdan herepað . Andlang herepaðes on wynmeduue west heafdo . þæt eft on wiðig mæde .

Hvius doni testes extitisse memorantur quorum inferius nomina carraxari videntur .

Testes. Ego Ædgar rex hoc donum signo crucis confirmavi .
Ego Dunstan archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Oscytel archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Ælfstan episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Æðelwold episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Wynsige episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Oswold episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Brihtelm episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Osulf episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Alfwold episcopus . + .
Ego Ealdelm episcopus . + .
Ego Eaðulf episcopus . + .
Ego Wulfric episcopus . + .
Ego Leofwine episcopus . + .
Ego Ælfstan episcopus . + .
Ego Ælfere Dux . + .
Ego Ælfheah Dux . + .
Ego Æþelstan dux . + .
Ego Ordgar dux . + .
Ego Æþelwine dux . + .
Ego Brihtnoð dux . + .
Ego Ælwine minister . + .
Ego Æinulf minister . + .
Ego Wlfstan minister . + .