S 95
A.D. 723 x 737 (24 November). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Cyneburg; grant of 6 hides (cassati) at Bradley near Inkberrow, Worcs. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. BL Cotton Nero E. i, pt 2, 182rv (s. xi)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 7v (s. xi1)
4. BL Cotton Vitell. C. ix, 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 15-16, ex MS 3, p. 566, ex MS 4; K 79; B 153; Earle, p. 26; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 32.
Comments: B, vol. i. 221 n. 2, on date; Stenton 1913, p. 23 n. 1, possibly authentic; Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 439 n. 31, probably genuine (= Stenton 1970, p. 53 n. 5); PN Worcs., p. 166; Finberg, ECWM, no. 209, authentic; Cox 1976, p. 17, on place-name; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 17-21; Scharer 1982, pp. 166-8, genuine apart from dating clause, correct date probably 723; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 26, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 146, cited, pp. 238-42, on beneficiary, p. 391, on Bradley topography.
+ Donante domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Ego Æðelbaldus rex Merciorum terram juris mei . vi . cassatorum . cui vocabulum est Bradanlæh . pro redemptione animæ meæ Cyneburge trado . ut fiat ejus possessio in perpetuum . et cuicumque voluerit tradere . vel in vita illius vel post obitum ejus habeat [potestatem] tradendi .
Si quis temptaverit hanc donationem fraudare . sciat se reddere rationem in die judicii ; Huic donationi optimates mei testes sunt . quorum nomina infra expressa sunt .
+ Ego Æþelbaldus rex Merciorum confirmationem hanc confirmavi propria manu .
+ Ego Uuor episcopus.
+ Ego Offa confirmavi.
+ Ego Eadberht confirmavi
+ Ego Waldhere confirmavi.
+ Ego Uuilfrid episcopus.
+ Ego Aldberht confirmavi.
+ Ego Ontuuini confirmavi .
Hanc cartam composui in iiii . feria . viii . Kal . decembribus passio sancti Chrisogoni . martyris .