S 320
A.D. 880 ? for 855. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, Kent, and of all the southern people of the English, to Malmesbury Abbey; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Minety, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 15v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 128r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 31r-32r (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 91v-92r (s. xii; dated 855)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 27; K 255; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 391-2 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., i. 300 ex MS 2; B 444 ex Brewer, Hamilton and MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 199, suspicious; Darlington 1955, p. 90; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECWM, no. 70, spurious, but authentic basis possible, dates 839 x 855; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 227 n. 1, king's name apparently error for Alfred; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1112, witnesses seem to belong to late 830s, may have been drawn up in Kent.
De Minti quam Athelwlfus rex Meldunensi ecclesie largitus est .
+ Regnante ac gubernante nos imperpetuum domino Deo salvatore nostro Jhesu Christo . Qui cuncta sæcula salvabit 7 humanum genus suo sanguine in se credencium cunctum redemit atque ab eterna interitu diabolice dominacionis per fidem rectam 7 baptismatis sacramentum liberavit .
Quapropter ego Athelwlfus mei non meriti sed Dei gratia largiente rex occidentalium Saxonum necnon eodem Deo donante Cantuariorum . 7 omni australi Anglorum populi Dei arridente gratia prælatus regimine ; aliquantulam terram Id est .v. mansiunculas in loco qui dicitur Mintih Deo omnipotenti ad monasterium Maldubiense in perpetuam possessionem humillime largitus sum . hoc tenore . ut imperpetuum dampnetur . qui hanc terram ab ipsa ecclesia auferre conetur .
Et hoc actum est anno .dccclxxx. dominice incarnacionis . Hec sunt nomina testium huius doni .
Ego Athelwlfus rex signo crucis hoc donum meum confirmavi domino Deo meo .
Ego Ceolnadus archiepiscopus consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Athelstan rex Cantuariorum . consensi 7 subscripsi .
Ego Eaþun episcopus consensi .
Ego Wallað dux consensi . 7 subscripsi .
Ego Eanwlf dux consensi .
Ego Wlwahrd dux consensi .
Ego Athelwlf dux . consensi . 7 subscripsi .
Ego Hereberht dux . consensi .
Ego Ealstan dux . consensi . 7 subscripsi .