S 387
A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to the minster of SS Mary and Peter, Exeter; grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Monkton (lost) in Wyke in Shobrooke and Thorverton, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: BL Add. Ch. 19516 (s. xi; BM Facs., iii. 7)
Printed: Collier, Trevelyan Papers, i. 1; B 726; Earle, pp. 329-30; Hooke 1994, p. 142, bounds only.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, possibly 11th century; PN Devon, ii., p. xiii; Robertson, Charters, p. 307, suspicious; Finberg, ECDC, no. 24, an 11th-century reconstruction of an original lost in 1003, pp. 4-5, on bounds; Chaplais 1966, pp. 5-9 (no. 2), spurious, written in mid 11th century in same hand as S 386, 389 MS 1 and 433 MS 3 (= 1981 XV, pp. 5-9); Blake 1974, pp. 51-2, perhaps forged in time of Bishop Leofric; Dumville 1979, p. 8, on terminology; Loyn 1980, pp. 296-7; Hooke 1990/1, pp. 200-2, on bounds; Hooke 1994, pp. 141-4, on bounds
Endorsements:
(1) in hands contemporary with charter: 'Munecatunes boc', 'to Muneca tune'
(2) in a hand of s. xiii in: Regis Ædelstani de Munecatun.
(3) in hands of s. xvi in: 'Carta Adelstani Regis . super manso quod olim vocabatur Moneketone . modo tamen Exchestre pro fundacione Ecclesia .', 'Carta Adthelstani Regis concessa Beato Petro de manso quod antiquitus vocabatur Moneketone 'ad monasterium' quod nunc nuncupatur Exechestre . (ad fundandum monasterium) et divise mansi sunt hee . primo de scokebroc forde . sursum per rivum etc. ut infra patet.', 'Devon .'
+ Anno ab incarnatione dominicæ dclxx . indictione xi . Ego Æðelstan rex Anglorum dabo pro eterna retributione et pro expiatione animæ meæ unam mansam ubi incolæ vocitant Muneca tun . Deo et sanctæ Mariæ nec non et sancto Petro principi apostolorum ad monasterium quod ab incolis nominatur Exan ceaster . 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 . set stabilis sit coram Deo et hominibus usque in sæculum .
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 of sceoca broces forda upp on stream oþ ðær seo dic onfehð . swa andlang þære dic of þære dice hyrnan . swa adun on þone cumb on þa lace . adun on þa lace on ceacga broc . adun on ceacga broc on þære dice ende . swa east on þa dic of þære dice hyrnan . swa suð on þa dic on þone þeod herpað west on herpað eft to sceoca broces forda .
+ Ego Æþelstan rex Anglorum hanc meam donationem cum sigillo sanctæ crucis impressi .
+ Ego Eadmund indolis clito . consensi .
+ Ego Wulfhelm archiepiscopus dictavi .
+ Ego Ælfheah episcopus adquievi .
+ Ego Æþelgar episcopus . notavi .
+ Ego Brihtelm episcopus . favi .
+ Ego Wynsige episcopus . conclusi .
+ Wulfgar dux .
+ Ælfhere dux .
+ Æðelstan dux .
+ Odda minister .
+ Wulfhelm minister .
+ Ælfheah minister .
+ Æðferð minister .
+ Wihtgar minister .