S 743
A.D. 966. King Edgar to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 2 hides (mansiunculae) at (Podimore) Milton, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 169v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 185r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum (no. 82 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 839 ex MS 2; K 525 and vol. vi. 242 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 91); B 1188 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 133; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 476 (no. 863) ex MS 1.
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 493, authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, on formulation; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. p. 178; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 33, 38, on MS sources, pp. 174-5, on estate history.
Carta Regis Edgari de Middeltone .
Anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi DCCCC . Sexagesimo sexto
Ego Edgar divina albescente gracia rex et primicerius tocius Albionis ruris partem aliquantalam binis ab accolis estimata mansiunculis in loco qui dicitur Middeltone ad boriam paludestris flum[in]is qui dicitur Cari ad monasterium Glastingense imperpetuum jus libenter admodum largitus sum
cum omnibus huic pertinentibus pratis paschuis silvis .
obsecrans ut nullus superveniat hominum superbie inflatus rancore qui haunc nostram largifluam donacionem inmutare vel minuere audeat . Si quis autem minuere vel auferre quod domino largiti sumus obstinatus voluerit . deleatur nomen ejus de libro vite reusque anathema post obitum eternis baratri deputatus incendiis nisi cum digna satisfactione devotus emendaverit .
Et hec pars telluris hiis limitibus circumgirari videtur .
Erest of þare forþan strete north on þan braden strete þanen on þe estlangedich þanen þan ristes ouer Care forde bi Middel hithe est on estlangedich þanen on þe northlangedich north bi more on þe greine wei : þanen on þe estlangedich þare on þe southlangedich to south more þanen on þe westlangedich endlang þere dich on leine meare of þan meore on winterburne þanen on Cari strem endlange stremes eft on þare for þan strete .
Et huius doni constipulatores exstiterunt quorum inferius nomina caraxari videntur .
Ego Edgar Rex subscripsi . + .
Ego Dunstanus archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi . + .
Cum multis aliis .