S 1447
c. A.D. 950-68. Record of a dispute involving estates at Send, Surrey, and at Sunbury, Middx, and a note of their purchase by Dunstan, archbishop. English.
Archive: Westminster
MSS: 1. London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. VIII (s. x2; OS Facs., ii, Westminster 7; Tapp 1951, facing p. 12)
2. BL Add. 4558, 143r-146r (s. xviii)
Printed: Kemble 1857, pp. 59-61, with translation; Thorpe, pp. 206-9, with translation; B 1063; Earle, pp. 201-3; Robertson, Charters, no. 44 (pp. 90-3), with translation.
Translated: Tapp 1951, p. 13.
Comments: PN Middx, pp. 22, 44; Tapp 1951, pp. 8-15; Robertson, Charters, pp. 336-9; Stenton 1955, p. 44, contemporary; Korhammer 1973, pp. 183-5, on estate history; Gelling, ECTV, no. 223 (pp. 110, 160), original; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 59, cited; Brooks 1984, p. 249; Kennedy 1985, p. 184, on legal process; Wormald 1988, nos 38-40; Kennedy 1995, pp. 142 n., 162 n., 167 n., on legal background; Pelteret 1995, pp. 166, 299.
Se fruma wæs þæt mon forstæl ænne wimman . æt Ieceslea Ælfsige Byrhsiges suna . Þurwif hatte se wimman. Þa befeng Ælfsige þone mann æt Wulfstane Wulfgares fæder . þa tymde Wulfstan hine to Æþelstane æt Sunnanbyrg . þa cende he tem . 7 let þone forberstan . 7 forbeh þone andagan . æfter þam bæd Ælfsige ægiftes his mannes . 7 he hine agef 7 forgeald him mid twam pundum . þa bæd Byrhferð ealdormann Æþelstan hys wer . for þam tembyrste . þa cwæð Æðelstan þæt he næfde him to syllanne . þa cleopode Eadweard Æðelstanes broðor . 7 cwæð . ic . hæbbe Sunnanburges boc ðe uncre yldran me læfdon . læt me þæt land to handa ic agife þinne wer ðam cynge . þa cwæð Æðelstan þæt him leofre wære þæt hit to fyre oððe flode gewurde . þonne he hit æfre gebide . ða cwæð Eadweard hit is wyrse þæt uncer naðor hit næbbe . þa wæs þæt swa . 7 forbead Byrhferð þæt land Æðelstane . 7 he of ferde 7 gebeh under Wulfgare æt Norðhealum . binnan ðam wendun gewyrda . 7 gewat Eadræd cyng . 7 feng Eadwig to rice . 7 wende Æðelstan hine eft into Sunnanbyrg . ungebetra þinga . þa geahsode þæt Eadwig cyng . 7 gesealde þæt land Byrnrice . 7 he feng to . 7 wearp Æðelstan ut . gemang þam getidde þæt Myrce gecuran Eadgar to cynge . 7 him anweald gesealdan ealra cynerihta . þa gesohte Æðelstan Eadgar cyng 7 bæd domes . þa ætdemdon him Myrcna witan land buton he his wer agulde þam cynge swa he oðrum ær sceolde . þa næfde he hwanon . ne he hit Eadwearde his breðer geðafian nolde . þa gesealde se cyng . 7 gebecte þæt land Æðelstan'e' ealdormenn . to hæbbenne . 7 to syllanne for life . 7 for legere þam him leofost wære . æfter þam getidde þæt Ecgferð gebohte boc 7 land æt Æðelstane ealdormenn . on cynges gewitnesse . 7 his witena swa his gemedo wæron . hæfde 7 breac oð his ende . þa betæhte Ecgferð on halre tungan . land 7 boc on cynges gewitnesse Dunstane arcebisceope to mundgenne his lafe . 7 his bearne . þa he geendod wæs þa rad se bisceop to þam cynge myngude þære munde 7 his gewitnesse . þa cwæð se cyng him to andsware mine witan habbað ætrecð Ecgferðe ealle his are . þurh þæt swyrd þe him on hype hangode þa he adranc . nam þa se cyng ða are þe he ahte .xx. hyda æt Sendan .x. æt Sunnanbyrg . 7 forgef Ælfhege ealdormenn . þa bead se bisceop his wer þam cynge . þa cwæð se cyng . þæt mihte beon geboden him wið clænum legere . ac ic hæbbe ealle þa spæce to Ælfhege læten. Þæs on syxtan gere gebohte se arcebisceop æt Ælfhege ealdormenn . þæt land æt Sendan . mid .xc. pundum . 7 æt Sunnanbyrg mid .cc. mancussan goldes . unbecwedene . 7 unforbodene wið ælcne mann to þære dægtide . 7 he him swa þa land geagnian derr . swa him se sealde ðe to syllenne ahte . 7 hi þam se cyng sealde . swa hi him his witan gerehton.