S 1464

A.D. 1020 x 1038 (Monks Risborough, Bucks.). Agreement between Archbishop Æthelnoth and Toki concerning land at Halton, Bucks., bequeathed to Christ Church by Wulfnoth. English.

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS: 1. BL Add. 14907, 18v-19r (s. xviii; ex 1)
2. London, Lambeth Palace, 1370, 115r (s. xi)

Printed: K 1321; Thorpe, p. 331, with translation; Robertson, Charters, no. 80 (p. 154), with translation, p. 155; Baines 1991, pp. 64-5, with translation.

Comments: PN Bucks., pp. 162, 167; Robertson, Charters, pp. 402-3; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 346-7 (no. 284), art. e, on MS 2; Gelling, ECTV, no. 158, original; Brooks 1984, pp. 301-2, MS 2 written in gospel-book by same scribe at same time as S 1466, a later agreement concerning the same land, so cannot be contemporary; Baines 1991.

+ Her swuteliað on ðisse Cristes bec Æþelnoðes arcebisceop forword 7 Tokiges embe þæt land æt Healtune . þæt wæs þæt Tokig com to Hrisbeorgan to ðam arcebisceop syþþan Æðelflæd his wif forðfaren wæs . 7 cydde him Wulfnoðes cwyde þæt he þæt land becweden hæfde into Cristes cyrcean æfter his dæge 7 his wifes . 7 bæd þone arcebisceop þæt he þæt land habban moste his dæg . 7 æfter his dæge þæt hit lage into Cristes cyrcean mid eallum þingum þe he þæron getilian mihte unbesacen . 7 cwæð þæt he wolde þam bisceop þances kepan 7 his mannum . 7 se arcebisceop him þæs tiðude . 7 sæde þæt he riht wið hine gedon hæfde þæt he sylf him for ðam cwyde secgean wolde . þeh he hit ær ful georne wiste . 7 ðises wæs to gewitnysse Æþelstan æt Bleddehlæwe . 7 Leofwine his sunu . 7 Leofric æt Eaningadene . 7 feala oðra godra cnihta . þeh we hi ealle ne nemnon . 7 eall ðæs arcebiscopes hired . ge gehadude ge læwede.