S 1167

A.D. 680 (October). Æthelmod to Bernguidis (Beorngyth), abbess, and to Folcburh, and their monastery; grant of 20 hides (manentes) by the river Cherwell. Latin.

Archive: Bath

MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 60-1 (s. xii2)

Printed: K 21; B 57 ex K; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 7-8.

Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 57 (pp. 483-4).

Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 21; Stenton 1918, p. 436 n. 18, ancient formulas (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 4); PN Oxon., i. 6; John 1960, pp. 6-7, 23, on formulation; Stenton 1971, p. 287, cited; Sims-Williams 1975, esp. p. 3, authentic, presumably refers to Bath; Cox 1976, p. 43, on place-name; Sawyer 1978, p. 145, cited; Gelling, ECTV, no. 259, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 483, authentic; Scharer 1982, p. 34 n. 73, authentic, p. 214 n. 19; Cunliffe 1984, p. 384, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 214-18, authentic, dates 680; Sims-Williams 1988, p. 165 n. 11; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 88, 112, authentic, dates 680; Blair 1994, p. 78, cited.

In nomine domini Dei salvatoris nostri Jhesu Christi ! Ego Æthelmod, per consensum regis Æthelredi, pro remedio animæ meæ, dono tibi Bernguidi venerabili abbatissæ et Folcburgi, et per vos monasterio vestro, manentes . xxti . juxta flumen quod appellatur Ceruelle, ut habeatis jure dominioque vestro, quam monasterio vestro vindicetis. Si quis vero contra hanc donationis meæ cartulam venire temptaverit, sciat se rationem redditurum in die judicii. Et ut hæc donatio mea in sua firmitate persistat, subter propria manu signum sanctæ crucis feci, et Theodorum sanctissimum archiepiscopum ut subscriberet rogavi, simul et Æthelredum regem ut subscriberet rogavi. Actum in mense Octobri, Indictione nona,

Signum sanctæ crucis Æthelmodi . + .
Æthelredus , rex gratia Dei , ascriptio . + .
Theodorus, gratia Dei archiepiscopus, subscripsi . + .
Putta, gratia Dei episcopus, subscripsi . + .
Bosel, gratia Dei episcopus, subscripsi . + .