S 211
A.D. 866. Burgred, king of Mercia, to Worcester monastery; grant of 2 hides (manentes) at Seckley in Upper Arley, also called Wolverley, Worcs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 183v-184v (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 410-11; K 291 and vol. iii. 396-7; B 514; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 31.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 79-80 (no. 4).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, p. 80; Davies 1972, pp. 471, 475, 476, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 262, spurious, bounds as in S 212; Hooke 1990, pp. 121-5, on bounds.
De Wlfwardilea .
Px Regnante in perpetuum Deo et domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Anno dominicæ incarnationis . dccc . lxvi . indictione . v . decima . ego Burhredus rex Merciorum cum consensu et consilio seniorum meorum libenti animo concedens dono aliquam partem agri regni mei a Deo dati . scilicet duos manentes ad Secceslea quam Uulfordilea ruricole etiam nominant cum omnibus ad illos pertinentibus . pratis . pascuis videlicet campis . et silvis . fratribus Deo militantibus in Wigornensi monasterio tali jure donationis ; ut libere ac quiete hæc mea dona æternaliter ab omnibus sæcularibus negotiis habeant preter expeditionem et emendationem pontis . et arcis ; atque pro salute animæ meæ fideles intercessores existant .
Scripta est et corroborata hæc cartula sub astipulatione testium idoneorum in eodem monasterio degentium . quorum onomata infra crucis dominicæ signo prænotantur .
Ego Burhred rex Merciorum hanc meam donationem cum signo sanctæ crucis Christi firmabo .
Ego . Athelsuuyt . regina consensi .
Ego . Alchun . episcopus .
Ego . Wlfsige . episcopus .
Ego . Eadbaldus . episcopus .
Ego . Aldredus . abbas .
Ego . Boldred . abbas .
Ego . Hunberhtus . dux .
Ego Beornothus dux .
Ego Eanberhtus . dux .
Ego Athelbald . minister .
Ego . Byrhtferð . minister .
Ego . Ceolmund minister .
Ðis synd þa land ge mære æt wulfweardig lea . of sture on hunig broc . up æfter broce . on þone ealdan hege . On lang hæges . oððone ealdan weg . Ondlang weges on ða mycclan strete . Ondlang stræte on feower gemære . þæt swa on calcbroc . Ond lang broces þæt swa on horsa broc . Ondlang broces þæt swa on þa dic . Ond lang dices on sture . Eft of sture on þa dic . Ond lang dices þæt on cuðredes treo . Ondlang dices on heasecan berh . Of heasecan berge on ða dic . Ondlang dices on wenferð . Ondlang wenferð þæt eft on sture .