S 802
A.D. 975 (Glastonbury). King Edgar to Ealhhelm, his minister, at the request of the monk Ælfwine, the king's kinsman; grant of 3 hides (mansiunculae) at Aston in Wellington, Salop. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: BL Add. 15350, 74v (s. xii)
Printed: K 590; B 1315; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 28.
Translated: Stevenson 1911/1, pp. 9-10.
Comments: Finberg 1958, pp. 31-3, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 432, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 23, product of Glastonbury scriptorium, discusses witness-list, p. 32 (no. 128), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions possible for 975, except Sigeric, abbot of St Augustine's; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 85, 'Dunstan B' formulation; PN Shrops., i. 23, 295-6; Hooke 1992, p. 57, map of bounds; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. pp. 179, 192-3.
Þis is Ealhhelmes land boc þe Eadgar cing him gebocode on ece yrfe æt Eastun .
Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DCCCCLXXV . Indictione . III .
Ego Eadgar . divina allubescente gratia rex et primicherius Albionis aliquantulam ruris partem tribus ab accolis estimatam mansiunculis in loco qui dicitur æt Eastun . Ealhhelmo ministro meo rogante me venerabili propinquo et monacho Ælfwino . liberam
preter arcem . pontem . expeditionemque
imperpetuum jus libentur admodum concedo
quatinus diebus vitæ suæ possideat . et post se cuicumque voluerit ; imperpetuum jus heredi derelinquat .
Quod si quisque quod non optamus huius donationis cartulam adnichilare temptaverit ; coram Christo se rationem redditurum agnoscat .
et his limitibus hæc telluris pars circumgyrari videtur .
Ærest on wulferdes treo of þam hlawe . 7 lang þæs leas on þa stræte . in þæs cynges ge mære of þære stræte in ebban mor . of æbban more in þara hina ge mære . swa 7lang hina ge mæres in burcels . of þam byrcelse on wrocene . swa 7lang wrocene in upping hæma ge mæra . swa 7lang þæs ge mæres in þa wellan . swa of þæra wyllan in þone mor . swa of þam more in þone broc . swa 7 lang þæs mores in þone dic . on upping hæma ge mæra . 7lang dices on wæclinga stræte . swa of þære stræte on þone lea . swa and lang þæs leas . þæt hit cymð æft on þone stan æt tan hlaw æt wulfherdes treo .
Acta est autem hec prefata donatio in cælebri monasterio quod dicitur Glestinagburuh teste omni illa congregatione . sed et aliis multis nobilibus quorum nomina subposita esse videtur .
Ego Aþulf episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Ælfhere dux .
Ego Ælfric abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Escwig abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Sigegar abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Sigeric abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Ælfhim abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Æþelwerd minister .
Ego Bryhtmer minister .
Ego Orddulf minister .