S 389
A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to the minster of St Mary, Exeter; grant of 6 perticae at Stoke Canon, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: 1. Exeter, D. & C., 2517 (s. xi; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 1)
2. Exeter, D. & C., 1706 (s. xv; bounds only)
Printed: Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 6; K 371 and vol. iii. 411; Davidson 1883, pp. 265-6; B 723; Earle, pp. 326-7; Hooke 1994, p. 134, bounds only.
Comments: Davidson 1883, pp. 263-5; OS Facs., ii, p. vii-viii, bounds identical with S 971; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 42, spurious; PN Devon, p. 447, on bounds; Rose-Troup 1933, pp. 56-7, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, p. 344, spurious; Finberg, ECDC, no. 22, a more or less clumsy reconstruction made in the 11th century to replace original lost in 1003; Chaplais 1966, pp. 5-9 (no. 3), spurious, written in mid 11th century in the same hand as S 386, 387 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 1994, pp. 134-7, on bounds.
Endorsement in contemporary hand: Six gyrdaboc to stoctone
+ Anno domicae incarnationis dclxx . indictione xi . Ego Æðelstan rex Anglorum dabo pro æterna remuneratione et pro expiatione animæ meæ sex perti'c'as ubi incolis vocitur Hrocastoc Deo et sanctæ Mariæ ad monasterium quod incolis vocitatur Exaceaster . ut habeat quamdiu christiana fides in gente Anglorum maneat . Precipimus quoque et obsecramus in Dei omnipotentis nomine et in trini'ta'tis honore . ut nullus hominum in aliquo tempore ausus sit frangere vel minuere . Sed stabilis et inconcussa permaneat .
Si autem aliquis hoc in aliquo frangere temptaverit . sciat se in æterna dampnatione pænitere nisi hic celeriter emendet .
Huius agelluli termini hæc sunt . Ærest of sulforda east anlang herpoðes on culum þanon eastrihte to langan forda þanon suð anlang streames oð culum lace anlang lace of þære lace up to þære ealdan dic anlang þære dice on ceaggan cumb þanon on cinges sloh þanon anlang weges to þæm mægen stane þanon suð þær ða wegas to licgað þanon on þone norð mystan hryc weg anlang hrycges to ðære eorð burh middeweardre þanon on brydena wyll þanon ut on exan 'up' anlang exan oð scræwanleges lace 7 scræwanleg þærto þænne fram æðelstanes hammes forda on sulforda 7 feower eceras bewestan exan fornagean edferðes eald lande .
+ Ego Æðelstan rex Anglorum meum donum cum sigillo sanctæ crucis conclusi .
+ Ego Eadmund indolis clito consolidavi .
+ Ego Wulfhelm archiepiscopus adquievi .
+ Ego Þeodred episcopus coadunavi .
+ Ego Brihtelm episcopus subscripsi .
+ Ego Ælfheah episcopus favi .
+ Ego Æðelgar episcopus consolidavi .
+ Æðelstan dux .
+ Ælfhere dux .
+ Eadmund dux .
+ Odda minister .
+ Wihtbord minister .
+ Heremod minister .
+ Wihtlaf minister .
+ Ælfhere minister .