S 1455
c. A.D. 990 x 1005. Agreement between Wulfric, abbot of St Augustine's, Canterbury, and Ealdred, son of Lyfing, about land at Clife, Kent. English.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 286, 77v (s. x/xi; Kelly, St Augustine's, pl. 4)
Printed: Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 10; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 151; K 429; Robertson, Charters, no. 62 (p. 128), with translation; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 31.
Comments: Lowe 1935, p. 4 (no. 126), dates MS to s. xi; Robertson, Charters, pp. 371-2; Ker, Catalogue, p. 95 (no. 55), art. b, on MS; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 118-19, authentic.
+ In nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi . Her swutelað on þisum gewrite hu Wulfric abb' . 7 Ealdred Lifinges sunu þæs ðegnes wæron sammæle ymbe þæt land æt Clife. þæt he gebeh for godes ege 7 for scs Augustinus . 7 for hys freonda mynegunge . mid lande into sce Augustine . 7 ælce geare sylð on scs Augustinus mæssedæg .i. pund to geswutelunga . 7 æfter hys dæge gange þæt land into sce Augustine . swa gewerud swa hit þonne byð ; Þyses ys to gewitnesse se hired æt sce Augustine 7 se æt Cristes cyrcean . 7 Lifing his fæder . 7 Siweard . 7 Sired his broðor . 7 Wulfstan æt Sealtwuda . 7 oðer Wulfstan ; 7 þis sy gedon for Siferð . 7 for his ofsprincg to hyra sawle ðearfe a butan ende ; Amen ;