S 472
A.D. 940 (Colchester, Essex). King Edmund to Wulfric, his minister; grant of 25 hides (manentes) at Grittleton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat 39, 202v-203r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 234v-235r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 43 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 32)
Printed: K 381 and vol. vi. 228-9 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 50-1 (no. 99) ex MS 2, p. 59 (no. 129); B 750 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 648 (no. 1201) ex MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 150 n. 2, probably spurious; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 251-3, on bounds, survey is of post-Conquest date; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 249, authentic; Hart 1972, p. 129, on charter-type; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 32, 39, on MS sources, pp. 132-4, on estate.
'Omnis sapiencia a domino Deo est' et ut profert prophetica Salomonis sentencia 'semper cum illo fuit et est ante evum' 1 qui videlicet Deus sancte trinitatis autoritate numero mensura et pondere creavit omnia simul ac finito mundi machinamento in ictu attomo et momento cuncta . Item decretis celestibus transformando in integrum juxta meritorum qualitatem gratulabunda conglomerat quique eciam auctor verus Edmundum Regem Anglo Saxonum regali prosapia procreatum honorifice summo solio sublimavit cujus melliflua largitate anno dominice incarnacionis d . c . c . c . c . xl . prefatus Rex Edmundus primo anno principalis potencie ministrum suum Wlfrik valde feliciter non pro lucro filargirie sed perhenni privilegio atque huius viri fidelissima stabilitate honorat ac benigne beatificat largiens illi terram . xxv . manentium jure perpetuo . At Grutelingtone . antiquo confinio sibi suisque heredibus perfruendam et ab omni jugo vectigalium preter pontem arcem expedicionemque perpetualiter possidendam .
Caveant hec frangentes claustra infernalia Gaudeantque Jhesu aliginnasio hec augentes eulogia amen .
Hec cartula caritatis carraxata est in Collacestr .
+ Ego Edmundus hoc primitivum prerogativum meo ministro Wlfrico signo sancte crucis consignavi .
+ Ego Wlfhelm archiepiscopus cum ceteris pontificibus benevola mentis intencione annotavi .
Heæ sunt territoria .
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