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A.D. 882 (Epsom, Surrey). Alfred, king of the Saxons, to Athelstan, his minister; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at Cyricestun (? Somerset), in return for 30 mancuses and 2 hides at Stoce (? Stoke St Mary, Somerset). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: BL Add. 15350, 64v-65r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1065; B 550; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 58.
Comments: Plummer 1899, pp. 96, 111, authentic; Stevenson 1904, p. 330 n. 6, dubious; PN Worcs., p. 107; Drögereit 1935, p. 373 n. 1, suspicious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 142-9, associates bounds with Norton Fitzwarren and Hill Farrance, Somerset; Finberg, ECW, no. 420, authentic, Cyrices tun is Creech; Whitelock 1966, p. 101, on internal reference to otherwise unknown campaign; Hart 1970, p. 31 (no. 112), authentic; Whitelock 1979, pp. 78, 92 n. 7, authenticity uncertain; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 227 n. 1, cited; Fleming 1985, p. 252, cited; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 56, cited; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1135, authentic basis, probably rewritten by a forger; Abrams 1996, pp. 100-1 n. 144, on Cyricestun.
To Cyrices tun .
In nomine altissimi genitoris qui cuncta simul subter axe et supra gubernat . quique omnia suo disponit nutu ; Celum pugillo continens . terram palma metens . omnibusque ut voluerit finem imponet .
Qua propter ego Ælfred gratia Dei Saxonum rex . sedulo in mente ne cogitans quod multis sepissime evenit vicibus ut 'bene' tractata atque a senioribus disposita . per anfractus oblivionis seu incuriæ a posterioribus depravata sine respectu rectitudinis esse cernuntur . nisi prius fixioribus certioribusque scedarum apicibus in propatulo adstipulate fore demulgantur . Vnde ego dabo cuidam fideli meo ministro . Æðelstano . terram cassatorum in loco qui a ruricolis . Cyrices tun . appellatur pro ejus amabili peccunia . id est . xxx . mancusis et duobus mans' in loco qui Æs Stoce nominatur . Vt habeat et possideat quam diu vivat . et post se cuicumque voluerit ceu corroboravimus perhenniter heredi derelinquat . ceu supradiximus in æternam hereditatem . Sit autem predictum rus liber ab omni mundiali obstaculo cum omnibus ad se recte pertinentibus . id est campis . pascuis . pratis . fiscuariis . silvis . aquis . aquarumque decursibus . Æt cyriceswudu . sex æb'deæ quia pertinet ad welletun . Excepto istis tribus expeditione pontis arcisve constructione . termina autem item in sequentibus subscribimus . Si quis vero hanc meam donationem augere voluerit ; augeat illi Deus scriptionem nominum in albo sanctorum . quisquis vero infringere atque motare temptaverit . noscat de se illud Daviticum esse completum . ut deleatur de libris viventium . et cum justis non scribatur .
Scripta est autem hæc singrafa . Anno dominicæ incarnationis . dccclxxxii . Indictione vero . xv . in expeditione . in loco qui Hebbeshamm appellatur . His testibus consentientibus quorum nomina infra caraxata esse videntur .
Þis synt ðara fiftene hida land ge mæro æt Cyricestune . Ærest fram bradan forda . upp on stream of tude ford . þonne upp on stream on helfæres ge mære . on wiðig sled ; þanon norð on wiðig slæd ; þanon norð on an mor sled . norð to ie ; þonne norð upp of þære ie ; upp on þone ibihttan alr . of þam ibihtan alre on scortan dic . þonne of scortan dic on llullan sleð . þonne of llullan slæde . on þa ealdan burg . to herepoðe . ðanon of þam herepoðe . to fælet hamme . 7 be westan fylet hamme . nigon æceras . ðanon on fylet hamme nioðoweardum on stream . þonne on dune on ælfredes gemæro on stream . þonne of dune on mylen burnan . on ælfnodes ge mæro on cunecan forð . þonne of cunecan forda of dune on stream on næglesburnan . þonne of dune on mylenburnan on orcerd ford . ðonne of dune on stream on tan . þonne upp on tan on horsford . on alr ford . þonne upp of alr forda on mylenburnan upp on beamford . þonne up on stream . on bradan ford .
Ego Ælfred gratia Dei Saxonum rex propriæ donationi signum crucis confirmavi .
Ego Æþered archiepiscopus manum adpono .
Ego Denewulf episcopus huic donationi consentiens subscribo .
Ego Æþelnod Dux .
Ego Wlfred Dux .
Ego Orddulf Dux .
Ego Bucca Dux .
Ego Æðelwald Dux .
Ego Wullaf Dux .
Ego Garulf Dux .
Ego Byrhtnod Dux .
Ego Osric minister .
Ego Eggwulf minister .
Ego Æðelm minister .
Ego Witbrord minister .
Ego Deormod minister .
Ego Acca minister .
Ego Ælfhere minister .
Ego Wullaf minister .
Ego Babba minister .
Ego Ealdwulf minister .
Ego Æþelstan minister
Ego Tata minister .
Ego Burlaf minister .
Ego Æffa minister .