S 126
A.D. 786 or 589 for ? 779 or 789 x 790. Offa, king of Mercia, to the monks of St Mary's church, Worcester; grant of one hide (mansa) at Broadwas, Worcs. Latin and English versions with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 147v-148r (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 328-9; K 154 and vol. iii. 386; B 233; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 78; Robertson, Charters, no. 2 (pp. 2-4), English only, with translation, pp. 3-5; Hooke 1990, p. 87, bounds only.
Comments: Robinson 1919, pp. 11, 27, record of grant, not a charter; Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 37-40, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, pp. 260-1, dates to early 790; Ker 1948, pp. 59, 67-8, untrustworthy; Finberg, ECWM, no. 232, a memorandum of donation in English with four signatures taken from the original charter, Latin version is a later translation with anachronistic reference to St Mary's, dates 789 or 790, cf. p. 180; Hooke 1980, p. 47, on boundary mark; Scharer 1982, pp. 271-2, agrees with Finberg, dates 779; Hooke 1985, pp. 19-20, 163, cited; Hooke 1990, pp. 87-90, on bounds, with map p. 88.
De Bradevvassan .
Px Volutis curriculo temporum annis . dcc . lxxx . vi . anno dominicæ ac salutiferæ incarnationis . Offa rex Merciorum in . xxxii . anno regni sui concessit quandam ruris particulam . mansam scilicet unam . in villa quam ruricolæ Bradeuuesse appellant monachis sanctæ Mariæ Guigornensis æcclesiæ cum testium affirmatione et ex communicationum advocatione . Eo videlicet tenore juris et amplitudinis ; quo ipsemet habuit in tempore suæ dominationis.
+ Egomet vero . Offa . divinæ dispensationis gratia rex Merciorum hoc meum donum affirmando propriis manibus sanctæ crucis signaculum suppono .
+ Ego quoque Aldredus subregulus Wigornæ civitatis . hæc eadem confirmo .
+ Ego etiam Eadberht episcopus hæc eadem consigno .
+ Ego similiter Berhtun hæc eadem contestor .
De eadem re.
Ða ða wæron agane fif hundred wintra 7 nigan 7 hundeahtatig wintra fram Cristes gebyrtide . Offa kyning on þam an and þrittigan geare his kynedomes geuþe ane hide landes æt Bradewassan into þam mynstre on Wigrecestre þam broþran to bryce a on ece swa full 7 swa forð swa he seolf hæfde.
+ Ic Offa þurh Cristes gyfe Myrcena kining ðas mine geoue mid rode tacne gefæstnige. +. Ic Aldred Wigracestres undercin'in'g þas ylce geoue gefæstnige. + Ic Eadberht bisceop þas ylce þing gefæstnige. +. Ic Berhtun ðis ylce gefæstnige.
Ðis syndon ða landgemæra into Bradewassan of Temede streame in wynna bæce . of wynna bæce in wudumor . of wudumore in wætan sihtran . of þam wætan sice in ða bakas 7 of þam bacan in ða ealdan dic . of ðære ealdan dic in seges mere . 7 of seges mere in þæs pulles heafod 7 of ðam heafde to þornbrycge . of ðornbryc[ge] in þone pull . 7 æfter þam pulle in baka brycge of baka brycge in þæt wæte sicc . 7 of þam sice in foxbæce 'of foxbæcæ' in þone wulfseað . of þam seaðe in þa ealdan stihle . 'of þære stihle' in dodhæma pull . of þam pulle eft in Temede stream.