S 1385
A.D. 1003 x 1016. Wulfstan, archbishop, to Wulfgifu; lease, for three lives, of a half (mansa) hide at Perry Wood in St Martin's-without-Worcester, with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Add. C. 19795 (s. xi1; BM Facs., iv. 13)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 162rv (s. xi2; bounds only)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, p. 358 ex MS 2; Earle, pp. 234-5 ex MS 1; Hooke 1990, pp. 356-7, bounds only.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Whitelock 1963, p. 11, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 336, original, bounds partly coincide with those of S 1327; Hooke 1980, pp. 43, 48, on boundary marks; Hooke 1985, pp. 147, 148, 240, 243; Hooke 1987, p. 96; Hooke 1990, pp. 356-8, on bounds, with map p. 357; Dumville 1993, p. 66 n. 287; Baker and Holt 1996, pp. 139, 141, on topography; King 1996, pp. 111, 115.
Notes: Lower portion of chirograph (CYROGRAVVM).
Old English bounds only
ðis syndan þære halfre hide lond gemæru up æt þære pirian. þæt is ærest fornongean þære cyrcan ollung þære hegreawe on æglardes mersc. Ollung þære hegreawe inne þa strete, ollung þære strete þæt upp on þæne hyl. Of þam hylle dun in þæt dæll, þæt ollung þæs dæles. þæt up on þone hyll be henon lipperd ofer midne graf. þæt in þone midlestan holan weg þæt innan þa hegreawe. Ollung þa hegreawe innan þone readan weg. Ollung þæs readan weges þæt innan þa hecce. Ollung þa hecce þæt innan þa hecce fornigean þære cyrcan. And þæt land þærto þe æþelnoþ ahte up ættan ofran & þæne hagan þe eadwerd ahte & þæne mæd æcer þe þærto hyrð.