S 390
A.D. 670 for 924 x 939. King Athelstan to the monastery of SS Mary and Peter, Exeter; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Stoke (Stoke Canon, Devon). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter
MSS: Exeter, D. & C., 1705 (s. xiv)
Comments: Blake 1974, pp. 51-2, perhaps forged in time of Bishop Leofric; Hooke 1994, p. 137, boundary clause same as in S 389.
Notes: This is a conflation of two charters, the text and witnesses of S 386 and the bounds of S 389.
+ 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 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 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 .