S 661
A.D. 961 for 956 (iv). King Eadwig to the church of St Peter, Bath; restitution of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Weston, near Bath, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MSS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 75-6 and recto and verso of slip between pp. 76 and 75* (s. xii2)
Printed: K 485 and vol. iii. 455-6; B 1009; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 19-20.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 216-21, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p 19, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 475, authentic but misdated, belongs to 956 x 958; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, certainly spurious, pp. 59-6, witness-list is 956 'Group Four', p. 66, spurious but modelled in part on a genuine 'Dunstan B' charter, p. 67 n. 127; Keynes 1994, pp. 176, 182, spurious in received form but based in part on a 'Dunstan B' charter, perhaps one of King Edgar, and in part on a charter of King Eadwig issued in 956.
De Quinque hidis Westunæ .
Anno Dominicæ Incarnationis .dcccclxi.
Ego Eadwig divina allubescente gratia rex totius et primicerius Albionis ruris . quandam particulam quinis subæstimatam mansiunculis pridem indepte distorteque a beati Petri apostolici agminis primatis oraculo ablatam . restituendo et recuperando in loco qui dicitur æt Westune . ad ecclesiam beati et prefati æcclesiasticorum cultoris seminum quæ sita fertur Bathoniæ precordiali affectu .
intimoque spiramine sub divini timoris instinctu liberam
preter arcem pontem expeditionemque
in perpetuum jus largitus sum .
Huius namque singrapham successorum christianum quamdiu vigeat imperium . hanc vel in minimis audeat violare . Quod si quis quod non optamus presumptivo peregerit temptamine . hoc in tetrico infernalium sine ullo refocilamine sustineat cruciamine .
Huiuscæ donationis constipulatores totius senatores Albionis . sed et specialiter hi quorum inferius nomina carraxantur . unanimo confirmativoque conspiramine affuisse perhibentur .
Ego Eadwig rex Anglorum hoc donum cum triumpho sancte + impressi .
Ego Eadgar indoles corroboravi . + .
Ego Odo archiepiscopus consignavi . + .
Ego Ælfsige episcopus consensi . + .
Ego Oscytel episcopus dictavi . + .
Ego Brihtelm episcopus favi . + .
Ego Daniel episcopus subscripsi . + .
Æþelstan dux . + .
Eadmund dux . + .
Ælfere dux . + .
Æþelsige dux . + .
Æðelmund dux . + .
Æþelwold dux . + .
Ælfsige minister . + .
Byrhferð minister . + .
Ælfheah minister . + .
Æþelmær minister . + .
Æþelgeard minister . + .
Ælfwine minister . + .
Divisiones . Þonne syndon her þa land gemæra . Ærest of cortimæde upp to þam æsce . Of þam æsce on pleg dic . Of pleg dic be swin cumbes hefde to crawan hylle . Of crawan hylle upp to dune . west be ecgge to lacwege . Of lacwege to ceoles cumbe . Of ceoles cumbes est be ecgge to þam weallon . Of þam wealle to þam tune . Of þam tune on higweg . Andlang higweges to ænlypan þunan . Of ænlypan þunan on selardes pol . Of selardes pole ut on auene . þonne eft ærost on þa ealdan lanan to horpytton upp on epenn . Of þam penne on hean æsc . Of hean æsce upp andlang weges to blacan lege . to þere ealdan dic . Of þere ealdan dic a be graue to wulf slæde . Of wulf slæde a be wege . And lang weges to alesbeorge . Of alesbeorge to þam hlypgete . Of þam hlypgete a be wealle to lincumbe . Of lincumbe to midda hriccges wege . Of midda hriccges wege to stutardes cumbes grafe. Of stutardes cumbe to starforda andlang broces to tune .