S 1453
A.D. 972 x 992. Archbishop Oswald's memoranda on the estates of the see of York. English.
Archive: York
MSS: 1. BL Harley 55, 4v (s. xi1; Loyn 1971, appendix)
2. BL Harley 6841, 128rv (s. xvi; Latin version)
3. BL Harley 6841, 129rv (s. xvi)
Printed: B 1278, 1279; Robertson, Charters, no. 54 (pp. 110-13), with translation.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 114 (p. 565).
Comments: Stenton 1910, pp. 84-6, 'it may probably be placed within a short time of Oswald's accession in 971-2'; Stevenson 1912, p. 14 n. 65; Robertson, Charters, pp. 357-60; Ker, Catalogue, p. xxxiv, on punctuation, pp. 301-2 (no. 225), art. 3, on MS 1; Whitelock 1959, p. 79; Stenton 1971, pp. 436, 496, cited; Hart, ECNE, no. 125, authentic; Jones 1976, p. 38; Whitelock, EHD, p. 565; Keynes 1986, pp. 84, 89, 90; Wormald 1988, no. 53; Bullough 1996, pp. 16-17.
Ðis swutelunge gedihte Oswald arcebiscop 7 awritan het ; Þis syndon þa tunas þe syndan adon of Ottanlege . an ys Haddincham . oþer ys Hyllicleg . þridde Mensinctun . feoþe healf Burhleg fifte Gislicleh sixfe Scefinc . seofeþe Middeltun ehtaþe Dentun healf ix. Timmel .x. Lindeleh .xi. Stanburne .xii. Becwudu .xiii. Byllinctun healf . þas tunas sindan adon of Rypum .i. ys Heawic oþer Heawic .iii. Ansætleh .iiii. Stanleh an hid .v. Helperby .vi. æt Myðtune?4 . of Popeltune twa hida . þis is genumen of Scirebunnan . Ceoredesholm healf . 7 Cawudu healf 7 Gisferþ[es]dæll hyrðe æfre into Scirebunnan . 7 healfe socne þe gebyreþ into Scireburnan . þis syndan þa land þe Oscytel yrcebiscop begeat on Norþhymbralande mid his feo 7 him mon geald for unrihtan hæmede . an ys Æffeltune he gebohte mid .xxiiii. pundun . æt Deor[w]ulfe . Yferingaham he gebohte mid feower 7 feowertigun pundun æt fæge Osulfes fæder . 7 þæt land æt Neoweboldan he gebohte mid hundtwelftigun [ge]mancsun reades goldes æt Eadgare cyn[ing]eþ 7 æt Heolperbi him wæs gegolden for unrihtan hæmede wæron twegen gebroþra hæfdon an wif . 7 into Heolperby hyrð Mytun twa dæl 7 Wibustan socn . 7 Þurulfestun . 7 Ioletun . 7 Þorp . 7 æt Scyteby he gebohte mid .xx. pundun . 7 þreo hida æt Bracenan he gebohte æt Eadgare cinge 7 he hit him gebocode into sancte Iohanne . Ic Oswold arcebiscop swutelige þæt ealle þas land þe 'se' yrcebiscop Oscytel begeat on Norþhymbralande 7 min hlaford forgeaf hi me into sancte Petre þa he wæs æt Snotingaham . þas oþre land þe her elles onstandaþ ; ealle ic hy . . . . . . . . . . . . . þa wæs sancte Peter bereafod . . . . . syððan . wrece God swa he wille.