S 1168
A.D. 670 x 671 [? A.D. 681] (October). Wigheard to Abbes Bernguidis (Beorngyth); grant of 40 hides (manentes) at Slæpi (Islip, Oxon). Latin.
Archive: Bath
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, p. 59 (s. xii)
2. BL Lansdowne 863, 87r (s. xvi)
Printed: K 13; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 264 (no. 3); B 28 ex K; Hunt, Bath Carts., p. 6.
Comments: PN Oxon., i. 222; Hart, ECEE, no. 2, spurious, probably modelled on S 1167, identifies Slæpi as St Ives, Hunts.; Whitelock 1969, p. 112, Slæpi is Islip; Sims-Williams 1975, p. 3 n. 2, internal contradictions, may have been forged in 864 on basis of S 1167; Cox 1976, p. 23, on place-name; Gelling, ECTV, no. 258, perhaps some authentic basis, Slæpi is Islip; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 375, 483, cites as earliest genuine Anglo-Saxon charter extant in a cartulary but notes that the witnesses were copied from S 1167; Scharer 1982, p. 34 n. 73, forged under the influence of S 1167; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 211-14, 216-18, wording of charter entirely genuine, cartularist may simply have copied the wrong witness-list by mistake; Blair 1994, p. 78, cited.
In nomine Dei patris ! Regnante Uulfhero rege anno xiiiio regni sui, ego Uighardus, per consensum Uulfheri regis, dono tibi Bernguidi venerabili abbatissæ , et per te monasterio tuo . manentes xlta quæ sunt in loco qui appellatur Slæpi; ut habeas, teneas jure dominio tam tuo quam monasterii tui vindices ac defendas. Si quis contra hanc donationis meæ cartulam venire temptaverit, sciat se rationem redditurum in die judicii, et condempnatum esse cum ipsis qui ad sinistram ituri sunt. Actum in mense Octobris, indictione ixa.
Ego Theodorus gratia Dei archiepiscopus subscripsi. +
Ego Putta gratia Dei episcopus subscripsi. +
Ego Bosel gratia Dei episcopus subscripsi. +
Ego Æthelredus rex gratia Dei subscripsi. +