S 1252
A.D. 699 x 717. Ecgwine, bishop, to Æthelheard; grant for life of Fladbury minster and its endowment of 44 hides (manentes), with reversion to the church of Worcester, in exchange for 20 hides at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Somers Ch. 1 (lost)
2. BL Add. 46204, recto (s. xi)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 10r (s. xi1)
4. Bodleian, Dodsworth 78, 32r (s. xvii; no witnesses; ex 3)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 121 ex MS 3; Smith, Bede, p. 765 ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 455 ex Mon. Angl.; K 33 ex Smith and MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 6); B 76 endorsement ex Smith and K; Stevenson 1911, p. 201 ex MS 2.
Translated: Jones 1958, pp. 63-4.
Comments: Wanley, Catalogus, p. 301 no. 1; Finberg, ECWM, no. 198, authentic, endorsement to S 76; Hart, ECNE, no. 41, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 32-3, on place-names; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 22, cited; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 141, basic authenticity confirmed by S 62, pp. 161-2, on minster at Stratford; Lapidge 1993, p. 293 n., probably genuine.
Reverentissimæ semper memoriæ pontificis Oftfori ego Ecguuine , Deo dispensante , successor in episcopatum existo . Monasterium autem cui nomen est Fledanburg , quod in hac eadem cartula ex altera ejus parte eidem prædicto prædecessori meo subscriptione regali traditum asseratur , huic venerabili nostro secundum sæculum Æthilheardæ, quantum id a me fieri potest , in possessionem concedo ; ea tamen conditione , ut semper mihi inibi cænobialis vitæ statuta serventur . Pro reconpensatione vero huius nostræ donationis , in loco cujus nomen est Æt-stretfordæ . xx . cassatorum terram ab eo in jus æcclesiasticum accepi . Sciendum tamen me rationabili quadam causa compulsum id voluisse facere , ut ei . xliiii . manentium terram pro viginti manentium darem ; id est ea conditione ut post diem ejus terra ista sine contradictione alicujus ad Uuegernensem ecclesiam in jus episcopalis sedis sit donata , mihi et illi Oftforoque meo antecessori , in elemosinam sempiternam . Pax confirmantibus atque servantibus ; minuentibus vero vel contradicentibus dispersio perveniat sempiterna .
Æthelric .
Ætheluueard .
Æthelberht .
Omolincg abbas.
Hii sunt confirmatores et testes .