S 1249
A.D. 680 (6 July). Hædde, bishop (of Winchester), to Hæmgils, abbot (of Glastonbury); grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Leigh in Street and 2 hides (manentes) at Meare, Somerset. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 134v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt 1, 149v-150r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 5 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 31)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 837-8; K 19 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 47 (no. 82); HS, p. 164; B 47 ex K; Earle, pp. 9-10; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 14; Pierquin, Conciles, p. 114; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 363 (no. 639) ex MS 1.
Comments: HS, p. 164; Davidson 1884, p. 6, suspicious; Galbraith 1920, p. 382 n. 2, authentic; Robinson 1921, pp. 47-8, authentic but corrupted in transmission, relates to Leigh on Street; Turner 1950; Finberg, ECW, no. 357, authentic basis; Scott 1981, pp. 92, 198 n. 84; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 18-19, authentic; Costen 1992, pp. 38, 39, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 31, 35, 38, on MS sources, pp. 153-4, questionable, discusses identification with Leigh, pp. 169-71, may represent a recast and combined version of two genuine documents, discusses history of Meare, pp. 209-10, on Street; Faith 1997, p. 24.
Notes: In the MS the names of donor and beneficiary have been erased. A 15th-century endorsement refers to Ægelric, bishop of Dorchester, and St Peter's, Westminster, and it seems likely that the intention was to alter the operative details to create a direct grant to Westminster Abbey. For the Barking connection, cf. S 1246.
Regnante ac gubernante nos domino nostro Jhesu Christo ! mense Julio, pridie nonas, indictione quinta, anno incarnationis ejusdem . dclxxx. Nichil intulimus in hunc mundum verum nec auferre possumus ; ideo terrenis cælestia et caducis æterna comparanda sunt. Quapropter ego Eddi episcopus terram quæ dicitur Lantocal , tres cassatos , Hemgislo abbati libenter largior : necnon terram in alio loco , duas manentes , hoc est in insula quæ giro cingitur hinc atque illinc pallude cujus vocabulum est Ferramere . Denique solerter peto ut nullus post obitum nostrum hoc donativum in irritum facere præsumat . Siquis vero id temptaverit sciat se Christo rationem redditurum.
+ Ego Eddi episcopus subscripsi.