S 626
A.D. 956. King Eadwig to St Mary's, Glastonbury; confirmation of a vineyard with 2 hides (mansiunculae) at Panborough, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 134rv (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 149v (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 76 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: K 438 and vol. vi. 236 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 46-7 (no. 8) ex MS 2; B 920 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 362-3 (no. 638), ex MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1899, p. 42, spurious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 113-14, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 470, authentic basis; Hudson and Neale 1983, bounds cover all of Panborough and Northload; Keynes 1980, p. 62 n. 108; Scott 1981, pp. 120, 203 n. 119; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 33, 35, 38, on MS sources, pp. 130-1, 191-3, on estate history, charter may represent a grant fo liberty for an estate already in Glastonbury's possession, p. 322; cf. S 607.
Mere .
Adjuva nos Jhesu Christe celi terreque moderator .
Cum seculi varietas crebra vacillacione defectum sui cunctis sapientibus liquido patefaciat . frequentativis orthodoxorum ammonicionibus hortamur . ut ea que eternaliter stabilia indefectaque perseverant celesti amminiculante basileo alacres incessabili adquiramus lucello .
Quam obrem ego Edwith annuente altritoni . moderatoris imperio tocius Albionis triumphatim potitus gubernamine . Rex ac gubernator non inmemor ob hoc michi recidiva fore concessa ut hiis strenue jugi conamine turpitudines eterna lucrarer quandam vinee particulam cum herentibus sibi duobus mansiunculis in loco qui a gnoscitis huiusce patrie at Pathenebergh'e . noscibili nuncupatur vocabulo sancte Dei genitricis ecclesieque Glastingensi olim data videtur monasterio cum omnibus huic rusculo rite pertinentibus . Pratis pascuis silvis capturis eterna largitus sum hereditate .
obsecrans ut nullus superveniat hominum superbie inflatus rancore qui haunc nostram largifluam donacionem inmutare minuere presumpcionis audeat .
Si quis autem minuere vel auferre quod domino largiti sumus obstinans voluerit . deleatur nomen ejus de libro vite . reusque anathema post obitum eternis baratri deputatus incendiis cum Juda Cristi proditore miserimus lugubriter puniatur . nisi cum digna satisfactione devotus emendaverit quod contra domini voluntatem violentus perpetravit .
Hiis autem limitibus prefatum rus cum colle humifero undique circumgirari videtur .
Herist of tunsing' were on þe rihte on midemede of midemede vp on þe rihte on oslakesleage west ward þanon on þe rihte on coudenesham þanon ut on midnemor en lang moris . eft on ea .
Acta est autem hec nostre dapsilitatis muninificentia anno incarnacionis domini . DCCCC . LVI . indictione vero quarta decima .
Hiis testibus consencientibus quorum inferius ordinatim nomina recitantur .
+ Ego Edwhi rex Anglorum hoc donum cum triumpho sancte crucis impressi .
+ Ego Edgar frater ejusdem regis confirmavi .
+ Ego Oda archiepiscopus confirmavi .
+ Ego Elfsie episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Brithelm episcopus corroboravi .
+ Ego Daniel Wintoniensis episcopus confirmavi .
+ Ego Oswolf episcopus favi .
+ Ego Wolsie episcopus dictavi .
+ Ego Athelstan dux consensi .
+ Ego Athelwold dux consensi .
+ Ego Edmund dux consensi .
Sit autem predictum Rus quod ego cum consensu optimatum meorum domino ejusque genitrici patrona amodum devocione largifluus concessi omni terrene servitutis jugo liberum nec pontis arcsive restauracione sive quempiam expedicione ullo modo affligatur sed tranquillum perseverans domini solummodo serviatur .