S 245
A.D. 704 (Everley, Wilts., 26 May). Ine, king, to the churches and monasteries (of Wessex); grant of exemption from secular burdens. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury (and Glastonbury)
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 10v-11r (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 124r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 18r-19v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 89v (s. xii)
5. (Glastonbury) Liber Terrarum, nos 2, 135 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, pp. 31, 34)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 22; Alford 1663, ii. 451; K 50 ex Wharton and MS 1; Giles, Opera Aldhelmi, cols 313-14; Thorpe, pp. 12-13; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 380-1 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 286-7 ex MS 2; B 108 ex Brewer, Hamilton, K, Thorpe and MS 1.
Comments: HS, p. 247, not genuine; Chadwick 1905, p. 286 n., may be spurious but witnesses are unlikely to have been invented; Stenton 1913, p. 16, forged but with authentic witness-list; Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Whitelock 1951, p. 27, questionable, contains a genuine witness-list of 705 x 709; Watkin 1956, p. 211 and n. 45, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 368, authentic; Brooks 1971, p. 75 n. 1, may be authentic in substance, date impossible; Hart, ECNE, p. 383, discusses dating problems; Lapidge and Herren 1979, p. 204, patently spurious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1986, authentic; Edwards 1988, pp. 26, 107-14, strong probability of authenticity; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 2-3, may have authentic substratum; PN Dorset, iii. 390; Kelly 1990/1, pp. 88-9, on relationship with S 228; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 225, spurious, but witness-list in part from authentic document of 704 x 709, p. 357, on identification of a witness; Abrams 1996, pp. 31, 34, 128 n. 24, on MSS at Glastonbury.
In nomine domini Dei nostri salvatoris ! Ego Ini, regnante domino rex , cum consilio et decreto præsulis nostri Aldhelmi , simulque cunctorum Dei sacerdotum suggestione et monachorum petitione qui in parrochia Saxonum conversantur , hanc libertatem æcclesiis impendo , et hanc privilegii dignitatem monasteriis confero , ut sine impedimento secularium rerum et absque tributo fiscalium negotiorum liberis mentibus Deo soli serviant , et monasticam cenobii disciplinam , Christo suffragium largiente , regulariter exerceant, ac pro statu et prosperitate regni nostri et indulgentia commissorum criminum ante conspectum divinæ Majestatis preces fundere dignentur , et orationum offitia frequentantes in ecclesiis pro nostra fragilitate interpellare nitantur. Si quis vero contra huius decreti singrapham venire temptaverit , sciat se coram Christo novemque angelorum ordinibus in tremendo examine rationem redditurum . Hoc vero decretum a nobis libenter concessum taliter servari et confirmari decernimus , ut tam nobis , vita comite , propitia divinitate regni gubernacula regentibus , quam futuris successoribus hereditatis jure regnandi monarchiam tenentibns inextricabili lege firmiter roboretur . Nam pro ampliore firmitatis testamento , principes et senatores , judices et patritios subscribere fecimus . Actum publice et confirmatum in loco qui appellatur Eburleagh , . viio. kalendarum Juniarum die , indictione . iida . anno ab incarnatione Christi . dciiiito . feliciter .
+ Signum manus Ini regis qui hæc omnia manu propria confirmavit .
+ Ego Aldelmus , servus servorum Dei , hoc decretum manu propria roboravi .
+ Ego Hagona abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Adbertus abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Haeha abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Uuintra abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Uuedr abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Beornuuald abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Uuilgar abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Bealuulf abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Froda abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Uuitta abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Signum manus Beoban .
+ Signum manus Eanberht .
+ Signum manus Coenberht .
+ Signum manus Coen .
+ Signum manus Æthilfridi .
+ Signum manus Eascuualdi .
+ Signum manus Duduc .
+ Signum manus Ticcean .
+ Signum manus Bealdhun .