S 563

A.D. 955. King Eadred to Ælfgyth, a nun at Wilton; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at (East) Pennard, Somerset, in return for 120 gold solidi. Latin with English bounds.

Archive: Glastonbury

MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, NMR 10565 (s. x med.; OS Facs., ii, Marquess of Bath 2)
2. Liber Terrarum, no. 68 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)

Printed: HMC Fourth Report (1874), Appendix, pp. 227-8; B 903.

Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 65-71, 233-4, bounds refer to East Pennard; Barker 1949, p. 73, contemporary; Finberg, ECW, no. 469, original; Chaplais 1966/1, pp. 163-4, original, script similar to that in Bodleian, Hatton 30 (= 1973, p. 47); Barker 1967, p. 91, original; Hart 1972, p. 128 n. 23, diplomatic characteristic of Winchester; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, pp. 46-8, on charter-type; Costen 1992, pp. 39-40, on estate; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. pp. 174, 186-7, original; Abrams 1996, pp. 10, 11, on MS 1, p. 19 n. 56, on endorsement, pp. 66, 123, on details of bounds, pp. 195-8, on estate.

Endorsements:
(1) Carta Edredi regis de Pennard minster et est LXVIII . in landeboke
(2) . Pennard . II .
(3) boc to Pennerd . . DCCCCLV
(4) Penerd mynstres boc
(5) Eddred de Pennard etc .

Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DCCCC . LV .

Ego Eadred divina gratia favente rex et primichærius totius Albionis Ælfgiðe sancti moniali in Wiltunensi monasterio degenti . ob ejus amabile et aurigenum pretiolum hoc est . CXX . solidos auri . ruris particulam in loco qui dicitur Pengeard mynster cassatis bisdenis estimatam . tenore tantum modo interposito . ut ex 'h'is binarum usus vernantibus . ad ejus oracula monasterii prout antiquitus destinabatur . indiscussus perseveret . ab omni servitio preter arcem . pontem . expeditionem liberam . libenter admodum concessi . Eo tenore huius munificentiæ donum perstringens . ut post obitum suum inperpetuum jus cuicumque voluerit heredi derelinquat . quod si quisque quod non optamus huiuscæ donationis cartulam infringere temptaverit . ni prius in hoc seculo digne castigetur in futuro perenni cruciatu prematur ;

Et his limitibus hæc telluris particula circum girari videtur;.

Ærest on bulan setl þanon on stod leage of stodlege . on þone meal mihtan ford . of þam forda on þone langan þorn . of þam þorne on weste werde hina dune on þone ellen styb . of þam stybbe on þone risc pyt . of þam pytte on þa haran apuldre . of þære apuldre on swynget . of swyngete on þa ealdan dic . of þære dic on þone burnan . of þam burnan on þone hæc . of þam hæcce on eobban slæd . of þam slæde on þa seocan aac . of þære æc on þone burnan . of þam burnan on cullan burh norðe wearde . of cullan byrg on þæt stan gedelf . of þam gedelfe on þone mærðorn . of þam þornne on bican ham . of bican hamme 7 lang hricges on widan cumb . of widan cumbe on wyl wyrðe weste wearðe . of ðare wyrðe on þæt pyl . 7 lang pylles on þone stan nihtan ford æt Eadmundes byrig . of þam stanihtan forda on þa lace . 7 lang lace on þa stræt 7 lang stræt æt stocwudu norðe weardne on þæt pyl . 7 lang pylles on þa dic æt þæs biscopes gemære . of þære dic on east wylle . of east wylle on hnut cumb . 7 lang hnut cumbes east . on fulan broc . of fulan broce on þa miclan dic . of þære miclan dic . on þæt stræt get . of stræt gete suð 7 lang stræt . to bulan setle :

Huius doni constipulatorum nomina inferius notata videntur ;.

Ego Oda archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Wulfstan archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Ælfsige episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Wulfsige episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Alfwold episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Osulf episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Byrhtelm episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Coenwold episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Cynsige episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Wulfhelm episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Leofwine episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
Ego Æþestan dux .
Ego Eadmund dux .
Ego Byrhferð dux .
Ego Æthelsige dux .
Ego Ælfsige minister .
Ego Ælfnoð minister .
Ego Byrhferð minister .