S 813

? A.D. 970 x 975. King Edgar to St Mary's, Sherborne; grant of 5 hides at Oborne, Dorset. English.

Archive: Sherborne

MSS: BL Add. 46487, 10v-11r (s. xii med.)

Printed: B 1308; Robertson, Charters, no. 50 (pp. 104-7), with translation; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 10.

Comments: Robinson 1921, p. 43, witnesses mainly of 9th century; Robertson, Charters, p. 349, most witnesses are the same as in S 333; Finberg, ECW, no. 611, authentic basis; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions spurious; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 38-9, probably expanded from a genuine memorandum in a gospel-book, present witness-list a concoction, with some witnesses taken from S 333, dating limits may be wider if the attesting Bishop Ælfstan was bishop of London or Rochester, rather than Ramsbury; PN Dorset, iii. 354.

CARTA . V . HIDARUM APUD WOBURNAM .

In nomine domini Iesu Christi . Ic EADGAR cing cyðe on þisse bec þæt is Cristes boc þæt ic habba þa fif hyda æt Womburnan agifen Gode 7 Sancta MARIA for me sylfne 7 for mine yldran ðe þar restat æt Scireburnan . Aðelbold cing . 7 Æthelbyrht cing . 7 ðis ic habbe idon for ure ealra saule lufon to ecre reste . Gif hwa beo swa dyrtig þæt þis abrece oððe awenden wylle ; þas mine gife 7 sylene mid ænegum uncræfte þære stowe atbredan þence oððe wille ; wite he on domes dæge riht to agildanne beoforan Gode 7 eallum his halgum nymþe . bute he hit ær her on worolde gebete . Ic EADGAR cyning mid þara halgan rode tacn ðis hate swiþe geornlice getrymman 7 gefæstnian. + Dunstan archiepiscopus Cantwarubyri .

+ Wulsin episcopus .
+ Alfstan episcopus .
+ Eanwulf . dux .
+ Ælfstan . dux .
+ Alhhard . abbas
+ Heahmund . presbiter
+ Huita . prepositus
+ Osmund . minister .
+ Wulfhere . minister .
+ Cyma . minister .
+ Wulfred . minister .
+ Ecgbreht . minister .
+ Monnel . minister .
+ Eadwulf . minister .
+ Wistan . minister .
+ Æþelwulf . minister .
+ Wynsige . minister .
+ Goda . minister .
+ Coenwald . minister .
+ Wulfhelm . minister .
+ Beocca . minister .
+ Æþelmod . minister .
+ Beorhnoð . minister .
+ Hunred . minister .
+ Ecgulf . minister .
+ Æþelric . minister .
+ Ælfhere . minister .