S 386
A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to the minster of SS Mary and Peter, Exeter; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Culmstock, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: 1. Exeter, D. & C., 2519 (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 2)
2. Exeter, D. & C., 3672, p. 94 (s. xv; bounds only)
3. BL Cotton Ch. xi. 11 (s. xv; bounds only)
4. BL Cotton Vitell. D. vii, 22r (s. xvi; last part only)
Printed: Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 6; K 373; Davidson 1883, p. 267; B 724; Earle, pp. 328-9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 67; Hooke 1994, p. 138, bounds only.
Comments: Davidson 1883, pp. 266-7, substitute for original; PN Devon, p. 612 n.; Robertson, Charters, p. 307, suspicious, p. 474, spurious; Finberg, ECDC, no. 23, 11th-century reconstruction of original lost in 1003; Chaplais 1966, pp. 5-9 (no. 1), spurious, MS 1 written in mid 11th-century in same hand as S 387, 389 MS 1 and 433 MS 3 (= 1981 XV, pp. 5-9); Blake 1974, pp. 51-2, perhaps forged in the time of Bishop Leofric; Dumville 1979, p. 8, on terminology; Loyn 1980, pp. 296-7; Hooke 1991-2, p. 89; Hooke 1994, pp. 137-41, on bounds; Abrams 1996, pp. 101-3, on estate history.
Endorsements in various hands:
to Culumstoce
Regis Æðelstani donatio Qulumstoc
Carta de Columstoke
+ Anno ab incarnatione dominicæ dclxx . indictione xi . Ego Æðelstan rex Anglorum dabo pro æterna retributione et pro expiatione animæ meæ quinque cassatos ubi incolæ vocitant Culumstocc . Deo et sanctæ Mariæ necnon et sancto Petro principi apostolorum ad monasterium quod ab incolis nominatur Exanceaster . ut habeat quamdiu fides catholica in gente Anglorum maneat . Precipimus quoque . et obsecramus in Dei omnipotentis nomine et in sanctæ trinitatis honore . ut nullus homo in aliquo tempore . umquam hanc nostram donationem infringere ausus sit . Sed stabilis sit coram Deo et hominibus usque in seculum .
Si quis autem hoc in aliquo frangere vel minuere temptaverit . sciat se in æterna dampnatione puniri . nisi hic celeriter emendet .
Huius agri termini hæc sunt . Ærest on hacapenn foreweard adun on secgwyll þanon on craducc þonne anlang streames on culumford of þæm forde to þorn wylle þanon to bryd wylle þanon to þære ænlipan æc þanon anlang herpoðes on heanhangran middeweardne þanon on hwitan beorh þanon on gerihtne on fengel þanon on gerihtne to ðam ealdan geweorce þanon on byrichangran þonne up on gyran torr þanon on þone hwyrfel þanon on þone þorn þanon on peon mynet easteweard þanon ongerihte on þa lace adun on culum up of culum on ða ealdan lace on burhgeardes worðig þanon ongerihtne to rancumb þanon west on gerihtne be ecge on hacapenn foreweardne .
+ Ego Æðelstan rex Anglorum hanc meam donationem cum sigillo sanctæ crucis impressi .
+ Ego Eadmund indolis clito . consensi .
+ Ego Wulfhelm archiepiscopus dictavi .
+ Ego Ælfheah episcopus adquievi .
+ Ego Æðelgar episcopus notavi .
+ Ego Brihtelm episcopus favi .
+ Ego Wynsige episcopus conclusi .
+ Wulfgar dux .
+ Ælfhere dux .
+ Æðelstan dux .
+ Odda minister .
+ Wulfhelm minister .
+ Ælfheah minister .
+ Æðelferð minister .
+ Wihtgar minister .