S 1199
A.D. 858 x 866. Ealhhere to Oswig and Weahtryth; grant of land (? in Canterbury). Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. M. 369 (Red Book, no. 8; ? s. ix; OS Facs., i. 9; Poole 1919, facing p. 334)
Printed: K 293; Thorpe, pp. 127-8; B 515; Earle, p. 132.
Comments: Stevenson 1912, p. 8, probably authentic; Poole 1919, pp. 334-5; Stenton 1932, p. 135 n. 1; Stenton 1955, p. 51 n. 2, contemporary; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, p. xii n. 2, the strip was a wrapping-tie and the hole cut by rats; Chaplais 1968, p. 332, on wrapping-tie (= 1973, p. 83); Stenton 1971, p. 527, cited; Chaplais 1978, p. 16 n. 24, script may not be contemporary (= 1981, XIV p. 16 n. 24); Brooks 1984, pp. 28-30, 361 n. 76, contemporary, reconstructs part of damaged witness-list; Lapidge 1996, p. 451, on latinity.
+ In nomine domini ego Ealhhere dabo et concedo Oswige 7 Weahtræde aliquem partem terre . . . . . . . . . . virgas in latitudine contra ejus pecunia que accepi ab eo hoc est cc . 7 lxx . denarios ex his . . . . . . . . . . . . land in miridie winesland in occidente tucenan land et in aquilone puplica semita . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . hereditatem illis habendum 7 possidendum feliciterque in diebus eorum perfruendum . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . derelinquendum liberam per omnia habeant potestates et si quis hanc meam donationem ser . . . . . . . . . . . . benedictio si autem absit quod non optamus ut alicujus personis homo cum diabolica t . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . infringere aut minuere temtaverit sciat se ante tribunal Christi ratcionem . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . et hominibus emendare vo . . . . . . it his testibus consenticientibus et conscribentibus quorum no . . . . . . . .
Ego Æðelbearht rex hanc mea . . . nem cum vexillo sancte crucis Christi roborabo et subscribo .
Ego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ego Cialnoð archiepiscopus consensi .
. . . . ryhtwald dux .
Ego Mucel Minister .
Ego Eastmund minister .
Ego Ealh[here minister .]
Ego Ælfred filius regis . Hos omnes consenserunt et signo sancte crucis conscripserunt .
Ego Eðelwine minister .
. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Ego Æðelstan 7 ingan burgware .
Ego Æðelhelm 7 cniahta gegildan .
Ego Herewine 7 Herred .
Ego . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .