S 854
A.D. 984. King Æthelred to the church of Bath; grant of 3.5 hides (mansae) at Radstock, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 87-8 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 643; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 31-2.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 241, spurious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 195-6, on bounds; Ekwall 1936, p. 19; Ekwall, DEPN, p. 505 (s.n. Wellow), for identification; Finberg, ECW, no. 525, authentic but misdated, belongs to 1006 x 1019; Hart, ECNE, p. 21 n. 2, authentic but misdated; Dumville 1979, p. 12, witness-list of 1005; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, p. 94 n. 37, pp. 114, 243-4, spurious, witness-list taken from a charter of c. 1007; Keynes 1994, pp. 179, 182, spurious, based ultimately on a charter of 'Dunstan B' type, witness-list from a charter dated 1009.
Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Iesu Christi .DCCCC.LXXXIIII. Ego Æðelred dei gratia Anglorum rex imperiosus, quandam ruris particulam, tres uidelicet mansas atque dimidiam, loco qui celebri æt Welewe stoce nuncupatur, ad aecclesiam beati et praefati aecclesiasticorum cultoris seminum, quae sita fertur Bathonia praecordiali affectu, intimoque spiramine sub diuini timoris instinctu, liberam praeter arcem, pontem expeditionemque in perpetuum ius largitus sum. Huius namque syngrapham successorum christianum quamdiu uigeat imperium hanc uel in minimis audeat uiolare. Quod si quisque temptauerit infringere, nisi dignissime hic poeniteat, sese permansurum in aeternis poenis persentiat. Et his limitibus haec telluris particula circumgirari uidetur.
Ðis synd ða landgemære. Ærest of hicemannes stane on Foss; andlang Fosse to æscbeorge; of æscbeorge to wudubeorge, adun on strem on weleweheia; of weleweheia upp to hlypcumbe; of hlypcumbe eft on hicemannes stan.
Ego Æðelred rex Anglorum hoc donum animo concessi. +
Ego Æðelstan huic donationi consensi. +
Ego Eadgar clito consensi. +
Ego Eadmund frater praedicti clitonis adiuui. +
Ego Eadweard clito faui. +
Ego Eadward filius regis libens annui. +
Ego Eadwig frater clitonum annotaui. +
Ego Ælfheah archiepiscopus Dorobernensis non abnui. +
Ego Wulfstan archipraesul Eboracensis confirmaui. +
Ego Aðulf episcopus subscripsi. +
Ego Ordbyrht episcopus roboraui. +
Ego Liuingc episcopus non renui. +
Ego Æðelwold episcopus quisiui. +
Ego Wulfgar abbas. +
Ego Brihtwold abbas. +
Ego Ælfmær abbas. +
Ego Leofwine dux. +
Ego Ælfric dux. +
Ego Ulfkytel miles. +
Ego Æðelric miles. +