S 586
A.D. 956 for 959. King Eadwig to Ælfheah, his kinsman and minister; grant of 4 hides (mansi) on the river Nadder, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MSS: BL Harley 436, 45v-48r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 25-6; K 479 and vol. iii. 453-4; B 1030; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 116.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 82; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 293-5, bounds probably describe south-western part of modern parish of Wilton; Darlington 1955, p. 92, tentatively assigns to Wilton parish; Finberg, ECW, no. 289, authentic, indiction and regnal year point to 959; HRH, p. 229, possibly genuine but doubtful, subscriptions are consistent with 958 x 959; Keynes 1980, p. 112, no conclusive argument against authenticity; cf. S 631.
Þis his þare . feower hida boc be noddre æt þare Pyrigean . þe Eadwic cyng gebocode . Ælfheahe his mæge on ece yrfe .
In nomine Dei summi atque omnium sanctorum
Ego Eadwic . rex Anglorum atque Bryttanorum Cernens mundi fragilitatem . adque eaducam vitam quia sicut umbra pretereunt opes potentum et ea que olim a preteritis regibus visa sunt Nunc nostris temporibus videri non possunt . Et qui antea auro gemmis purpura splendide nitebant modo urnis tenebrosis recondita sunt . Talia ego considerans et hiis similia multa que nunc non possunt per omnia esse recitanda Inde mihi videtur quod ex ipso regimine quem mihi omnipotens dominus concessit cuicumque voluero dedero aut plura aut pauca territoria et cetera que ipso usui sunt pertinentia unicuique secundum suum servitium .
nunc omnibus vobis notum facio quod quandam meo dilecto ministro atque propinquo Ælfheago nomine particulam terre inpendo quatuor mansos juxta flamen que ab antiquis et modernis Noddre vocatur ad finitate arbore que dicitum Pyrum .
Vt evo suo feliciter possideat cum omnia ad se rite pertinentia . pascuis . pratis . et campis tali indictione vivendo aut post exitum suum cuicumque voluerit det libero arbitrio
exceptis tribus rebus arcium munitione expeditione et pontis constructione .
Hec supradicta terra taliter est precincta .
Si quis hoc meum donum servaverit aut augere voluerit Autgeat dominus nomen ejus in libro vite et si quispiam quod absit machinamenta antiqui hostis subripere voluerit sciat se sodalem carnificis Jude et demersum tetris inferni conligatumque catenis Satane sine fine nisi penitentie episcopali sententie emendaverit .
Hec cartula scripta est . Anno ab incarnatione domini . DCCCC . LVI . Regnante Eadwic . rege . Anno quarto imperii ejus . Indictione II .
Confinia terriculæ istius taliter sunt sita .
Þis synt þara feower hida land gemera be noddre æt þære pyrgean . Arest of noddre and lang þes port her paðes on þone garan þæt and lang þare land ge wirpa up to hricg dic west and lang þare dic on beornolfes stan . 7 swa forð on þa rugan hylle . þonene adune rihte on ðone hæðenan byrgels . of þan hæðenan byrgelse on þone stanigan beorh . of þan stanigan beorge oð ða hefada west be heafdan æt þa fore yrðe . and swa forð on gate hlinces heafde . 7 swa adune to þam port herpaþe . þonan on ucganford . and swa adune and lang streames on þa mylen ware . of þare mylen ware to þare swete apuldre . þonne eft on þone herpað þær we ær on fengan ;
Ego Eadwic . basileus Anglorum cum triumpho sancte crucis confirmo .
Ego Byrhtelm episcopus adfirmavi .
Ego Osulf episcopus conclusi .
Ego Byrhtelm episcopus consensi .
Ego Alfwold episcopus adquievi .
Ego Daniel episcopus corroboravi .
Aelfric abbas .
Alfwold abbas .
Aþelwold abbas .
Clemens abbas .
Eadmund dux .
Aelfgar minister .
Byhferð minister .
Eadric minister .
Oswig minister .
Aelfsige minister .
Wulfgar minister .
Sigferð minister .
Wulfric minister .
Ealdred minister .
Eadred minister .
Eelfere minister .
Aelfred minister .
Aelfsige minister .
Alfwold minister .
Aelfric minister .
Aþelbriht minister .
Wihtsige minister .
Aþelweard minister .
Leofa minister .
Ealdred minister .
Ordgar minister .
Osweard minister .
Osulf minister .
Wensige minister .
Wulfhere minister .
Aelfric minister .
Eadric minister .
Alfwold minister .