S 721
A.D. 963. King Edgar to Wulfhelm, his minister; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Otheri (apparently Ottery St Mary, Devon). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat 39, 174v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 191v (s. xiv)
Printed: K 505 and vol. vi. 236 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 56 (no. 115) ex MS 2; B 1104 ex MS 2; Earle, p. 427, bounds only; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 496 (no. 904) ex MS 1; Hooke 1994, p. 169, bounds only.
Comments: Finberg, ECDC, p. 12 (no. 39), refers to Ottery St Mary; Finberg 1960, pp. 25-6 (no. 39); Finberg, ECWM, p. 21 n. 3, confirms identification; Keynes 1980, p. 76 n. 153, compare formulation of S 697 and cf. S 736; Hooke 1994, pp. 168-72, on bounds; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 35, 38, on MS sources, pp. 189-91, on estate, possible that bounds of Ottery St Mary were attached to a charter originally covering Othery, Somerset; cf. 1033.
Otheri .
Carta Regis Edgari facta Wlfhelmo ministro suo de Otheri .
Regnante domino nostro Jhesu Christo imperpetuum
per quem similiter omnia regna seculorum reguntur sub sole velud sancta sapiencia protestata est dicens 'per me reges regnant et legum conditores justa decernunt per me principes imperant et potentes decernunt justiciam' 1 .
Qua propter Ego Edgar Dei omnipotentis nutu rex tocius Albionis humili quondam meo ministro nomine Wolfhelm particulam terre do . Id est duos cassatos illic ubi vocari vocabulo dicitur Otheri . eternaliter concedo
ut se vivente possideat . et ad exitum suum cuicumque voluerit det hec supradicta terra cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus id est pratis silvis paschuis campisque sed ab omni regali servicio libera
exceptis tribus rebus arcis conjunctione pontis constructione et expedicione .
Si quis vero hoc meum donum augere voluerit augeat dominus dies illius . Et si quispiam suadente diabolo infringere voluerit sciat se proculdubio redditurum racionem in die judicii ubi reddetur unicuique secundum opera sua .
Hec sunt confinia supradicte terre .
Þis beth þe landmere . Erest of þan welle þaron otheri endlang stremes on þe redecliue northward þare op on ame put of þan putte on an withi of þan withi on an stonberwe of þan berwe est up on þe rigge on hothurne stanberwe þanen to þan herpoþe endelang herpoþes on þe stanbrugge þar up on landscherlake on holangcombe heued þanen up on dich . þanen on midde þe doune endlang doune on iffingknap medeward þanen on iffingberlake of þer lake on þe dich of þan dich on þe ifre northward eft on þe welle endlang rewe þare eft on otheri .
Hec cartula scripta est anno dominice incarnacionis . DC . C . C . C . LXIII .
Ego Edgar Rex Anglorum hoc donum tropheo agie crucis confirmavi . + .
Ego Dunstan archiepiscopus cum signo sancte crucis roboravi . + .