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A.D. 949. King Eadred to Æthelmær, praeses; grant of 20 hides (manentes) at Chetwode and Hillesden, Bucks. Latin with English bounds, and note, in English, referring to Chadshunt, Warwicks.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 143-4 (s. xvi; ex 1)
3. BL Cotton Vitell. D. vii, 24rv (s. xvi; ex 2)
Printed: K 424 and vol. vi. 233-4 ex MS 2; B 883 ex MS 2; Earle pp. 370-2 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 94; Reed 1979, p. 169, bounds only; Baines 1982, pp. 3-6, with translation pp. 7-8; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 43.
Comments: Robinson 1923, p. 59; PN Bucks., pp. 58, 62, 64, 218; PN Warwicks., p. 249; Drögereit 1952, p. 63 n. 23, p. 64 n. 29, p. 66, suspicious; Ekwall, DEPN, p. 94; Barker 1967, p. 87, on subscription of reeve of Bamburgh; Hart 1972, on charter-type; HRH, p. 229, genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one; Gelling, ECTV, no. 149, authentic; Reed 1979, pp. 169-73, on bounds; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 373-2, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Baines 1982; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; BA Facs., p. 12; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 43, authentic.
E. CCCC 111, pp. 143-4: copy of lost original, s. xvi
Rubric: + Æþelmæres booc æt Cetwuda 7 Hildes dune twuentig hida on ece yrfe.
+ Perpetue prosperitatis priuilegium quod constat cælesti paradiso sublimatum sancte trinitatis Dei monarchia gubernat magnopere que quoque deitatis essentia terrene hereditatis patrimonium cunctis prestat prout uult promerentibus. Hoc apparet proculdubio in rege Anglorum gloriosissimo beato Dei opere precio Eadredo, quem Norðhymbra paganorumque seu ceterarum sceptro prouinciarum rex regum omnipotens sublimauit, quique prefatus imperator semper Deo grates dignissimas larga manu subministrat. Cuius regis largitatem Æþelmærus præses iam promulgat de perenni usurpatione terrarum, quem denique honorifice locupletat sibi suisque heredibus liberaliter largiendo, preter urbis atque pontis constructione expeditionisque obsequio. Ast sequitur terminatio uiginti manentium ad Cetwuda et æt Hildes dune hoc modo. Þis seond þa londgemæru ðæs londes æt Cetwuda 7 æt Hildes dune. Æræst on ða halgan ac, swa ollonc þæs gemær heges to þæm slo æt þæm more ufewerdan, of ðæm more on dunes pyt, ðonan ðurh wippan hoh, þæt swa be ðæm gretan wyrtruman on ðone holan weg, on þone oðerne weg to þæm rugan hlawe, þonan on gerihte on ðæt lytle riðig, þæt swa on offan pol, up ollonc streames on bylian pol, þonan up ofer ða mæd, þæt swa be ðara acar heafdan on ðæt sic, up of ðæm sice to cufan lea, on ða dic to þæm readan slo, ðæt swa on þane lytlan dic, þonon on ðone oðerne dic, þæt swa ollonc þæs gemære heges onbutan hreodlege, þæt swa on þone mærhege þe sceot to þære halgan æc. Þis lond Ælfstan sald Æþelflede wið þæm londe æt ceadeles funtan 7 eft Eadred cing hit ageaf Æþelmære wið þæm ilcan land a on ece yrfe þæm ðe him leofast seon.
Huius certe codicis conscriptio peracta est anno dominice incarnationis .dccccxlviiii., et tertio prefati regis anniculo, tali optimatum stabilitate conscribentium.
+ Eadred rex et rector
+ Oda aercabiscop
+ Wulfstan archiepiscopus
+ Þeodred pontifex
+ Ælfheh presul
+ Ælfric 7 Wulfsige episcopi.
Aelfred antistes
+ Æþelgar pontifex
+ Koenwald monachus
+ Wulfhelm biscop
+ Cynsige consul
+ Aldred episcopus
+ Æþelwald presul pontificale cum augusto eulogium iubilando dogmatizaui.
o Eadgeofu felix
+ Howæl regulus
+ Morcant 7 Cadmon
+ Osulf ad Bebb' hehgr'
+ Æþelstan dux
+ Urm eorl atque Coll.
+ Alhhelm comes
+ Uhtred eorl.
Grim. +
+ Æþelmund alderman.
+ Eadric princeps.
Scule eorl.
+ Ælfgar comes
Ælfstan miles 7 Eadmund þegn.
+ Ælfsige miles 7 Wulfric þegn.
Berhferð miles regis.
+ Wigstan abbud 7 Aldredus
Dunstan abb'.
+ Eadhelmus 7 Æþelgeard.
Berhtsige miles.
Æþelmær preses.
Ælfheah miles 7 Eadsige.
Hi porro prefati primates regale prerogatiuum scribendo consignabant cum triumphali uexillo solidantes. Omnes sancti Dei beatificent hoc beneficium stabiliter conseruantes. Si qui uero fraudulenter hanc regalem libertatem minuendo denihilent, ad nihilum redigantur, nisi digne coram Deo satis et satis faciant emendantes in melius quod negligenter deliquerant. Adtendat unusquisque fidelium quod imperat auctor Christus, 'Date et dabitur uobis'. Amen. Contulit nempe hic mas en magno regi .ii. cornua auro argentoque decorata, ut eo liberius hoc prerogatiuum roboretur. Finis.