S 602
A.D. 956 (iv). King Eadwig to Æthelnoth, minister; grant of land at Darlaston, near Stone, Staffs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/1/41 (? s. x med. or s. xi2; BA Facs. 4; Hart, ECNE, frontispiece; Sawyer, Burton, pl. II, in part)
2. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 176v = p. 352 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: B 954 ex MS 2; Hart, ECNE, pp. 172-4 ex MS 1; Sawyer, Burton, no. 17 ex MSS, 1, 2; Hooke 1983, pp. 85, 87, bounds only.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, p. 96 (no. 16).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, p. 97; Hart 1970/1, p. 24, on endorsement; Hart, ECNE, no. 86 and pp. 174-9, authentic, MS 1 contemporary copy, discusses bounds; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xiii, 28-9, suspicious because MS 1 is a later imitative copy; Keynes 1980, pp. 59-60, 'Group Four', pp. 68-9 n. 133, unlikely to be original, cf. S 646; Keynes 1980/1, p. 216, on formulation; Brooks 1982, p. 464, more likely to be an original than a later forgery; Hooke 1983, pp. 85, 87-9, on bounds; PN Staffs., i. 16; BA Facs., p. 4, not clear if MS 1 contemporary or later copy; Hart 1992, pp. 445-7, on Eadwig's charters; Dumville 1994, p. 146 n. 71, MS 1 written in imitative script.
B. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, fo. 176v (p. 352): ? copy of D, s. xiii med
D. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/1/41: single sheet, parchment, s. xi 2, 230 x 360 mm.
Endorsements:
(1) by the scribe of the charter: + Deorlafestunæs boc : - an hid æ[t] þan hame . oðer æt stapulforda .
(2) in a hand of s. xiii: Anno ab incarnacione domini . dcccc . lvi . regnauit Ædwig .
(3) in a hand of s. xiii (?): . dcccc . lvi .
(4) in a medieval hand: XVII
Px In nomine domini nostri Iesv Cristi . Omnibus quibus cristianitatis censuram a Dei arcipotentis poli per suam largifluam misericordiam concessum est . quod huius instantis labentisque uitæ prosperitas totis nisibus restaurare perditos ac nefandos . per illius auxilium possumus ceu psalmigraphus ita fando dixit . initium sapientiæ timor domini . Quapropter . ego Eadwig . rex Anglorum ac totius Bryttanicæ telluris gubernator et rector . cuidam meo fideli ministro quem nonnulli uocitant noto uocamine . Æðelnoðe aliquam partem terre in loco qui dicitur . Deorlauestun . vt habeat ac possideat quandi uiuat . et post se cuicumque uoluerit heredi derelinquat in æternam hereditatem . Sit autem predictum rus liberum ab omni mundiali obstaculo cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus . campis . pascuis . pratis . siluis . sine expeditione . et pontis . arcisue instructione . Si quis autem infringere temptauerit quod absit . sciat se rationem redditurum coram Deo et angelis eius . nisi prius hic digna satisfactione emendare maluerit . Istis terminis ambitur predicta tellus . þis synd þa landgemæra to Deorlafestune ærest hit fehð on trentan þær fulan broc scyt on trentan . þonne andlang broces ongean stream on fulanford . of ðæm forda on bradan ford . of bradan forda west andlang stræte on hwæte croft of ðæm crofte on grenan hylle of ðære hylle andlang slædes þæt hit cymð on þa stræt to þæm ðrym landgemæran . þonne andlang weges on ðære dic ende . of ðære dic on gerihtna to sceortan stane . of ðæm stane on ðone wylle . of þæm wylle on færdene . of ðære dene þæt eft on trentan .
Hæc carta scripta est . anno dominice incarnationis . dcccclvi . indictione . xiiii .
+ Ego Eadwig rex Anglorum indeclinabiliter concessi .
+ Ego Eadgar eiusdem regis frater celeriter consensi .
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+ Ego Oda archiepiscopus cum signo sancte crucis roboraui .
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+ Ego Ælfsinus presul sigillum agie crucis impressi .
+ Ego Byrhthelm episcopus consignaui .
+ Ego Cenwald episcopus adquieui
+ Ego Oscytel episcopus subscripsi .
+ Ego Osulf episcopus .
+ Ego Byhthelm episcopus .
+ Ego Aþulf episcopus
+ Æðelstan dux .
+ Ælfhere dux .
+ Æðelsige dux .
+ Aþelwold dux .
+ Byrhtnoþ dux .
+ Ælfheah minister .
+ Ælfsige minister .
+ Ælfric minister .
+ Ælfred minister .
+ Ælfsige minister .
+ Ælfnoþ minister .
+ Ælfwig minister .
+ Eadric minister .
+ Byrnric minister .