S 785
A.D. 972. King Edgar to Bath Abbey; grant of 10 hides (mansiunculae) at Corston, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 84-5 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 573; B 1287; Hunt, Bath Carts., p. 29; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 20.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 201-4, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 515, authentic, bounds identical with those of S 476; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, 'Dunstan B' formulation; Costen 1983, pp. 29-30, on bounds; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. pp. 178, 182, probably authentic; Abrams 1996, p. 254 n. 72, on estate.
De Corstona .
Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DCCCC . LXXII .
Ego Eadgar rex et primicerius totius Albionis ruris . quandam particulam denis ab accolis æstimatam mansiunlis in loco qui dicitur Corsantun .
liberan preter arcem . pontem . expeditionemque .
sub instinctu divini amoris et timoris Deo omnipotenti . et sancto Petro . humillima devotione in civitate Aquamania offero et commendo . ea interposita rationatione . ut nullius ordinis homo hoc nostrum donativum decretum quamdiu christianitas in Anglorum vigeat partibus sine ira et vindicta omnipotentis Dei audeat irrumpere . vel temptaverit infringere .
Et his limitibus hæc telluris pars sic cingi videtur .
Divisiones. Ærest on corsan stream up on þone ealdan stan weall suð oðða hyrnan . þanon west rihte oþ cildastan . Of cilda stane on merces burh norðwearde þonne west on þa burh oðða west hyrnan þanne norþ on herepað oð þone ænlipigan ðorn . west þanne on þone hrycg þæt on þone ænlipian stan . þanne norþrihte on mere mæde westewearde þanne rihte on þone herepað oþ wifeles cumbes heafod . þonne of þære suð ecge on æscwylle oð þæt nehste slæd . þanne on stanwylles broc of dune on afene . up on afene oð corsan .
Hæc sunt nomina testium hoc donum confirmantium regisque privilegium rite consentientium .
Testes. Ego Eadgar rex concessi et subscripsi . + .
Ego Dunstan archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi + .
Ego Athelwold episcopus consensi + .
Ego Ælfstan episcopus consensi et subscripsi + .
[E]go Ælfhere dux consensi et subsc[ri]psi . + .
Ego Aþelwine dux consensi et subscripsi . + .