S 1403
A.D. 1047 x 1053. Stigand, bishop, and the community at Old Minster, to Wulfric; lease, for two lives, of 2 hides and one yardland at Alton Priors and three yardlands at Patney, Wilts., with meadow and pasture. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: BL Add. 15350, 74v (s. xii)
Printed: K 949; B 390, last 13 lines; Robertson, Charters, no. 107 (p. 202), with translation, p. 203.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 450; Finberg, ECW, no. 336, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 32 (no. 132), authentic; HRH, p. 236, probably genuine.
Notes: Issued in triplicate, with portions kept by Old Minster, Wilton and the beneficiary.
Her swytelað on þissum gewrite þa foreweard þæ Stigand bisceop 7 se hired on ealdan mynstre worhtan wið Wulfric þa ða hy letan him to þa twa hida landes æt Aweltune 7 ane gyrde . 7 æt Peattanigge þreo gyrda . 7 þa mæde þa gebyrað to ðam gereflande 7 twegra getymæna læse . 7 tyn cuna forð mið þas hlafordes . 7 his sceapa læse æfter þæs hlafordes his deg 7 anes mannes deg æfter him swylce hæ best geunne wið swylcan sceatte swylce he hit þa findæ mihte. Þises is to gewitnesse, Stigand bisceop . 7 Godwine eorl . 7 se hired on ealdan mynstre . 7 Ælfwine abbot . 7 se hired on niwan mynstre and ealle scirþegenas on Hamtunscire. Þissa gewrita syndan þreo an is on ealdan mynstre . and oþer is on Wiltune . and þridde æfed Wlfric.