S 1256
A.D. 759. Cyneheard, bishop (of Winchester), and Cynewulf, king, to Ecgwold, abbot, and his familia at Tisbury Minster, Wilts.; confirmation of 30 hides by Fontmell Brook, Dorset, acquired by a predecessor of Ecgwold from another monastery. Latin.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MSS: BL Harley 61, 19v-20r (s. xv)
Printed: K 104; B 186; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 47; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 1b.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 55 (pp. 481-2).
Comments: Stenton 1918, p. 443 n. 48, witness-list corrected (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 6); Goodchild 1929, pp. 322-3; Darlington 1955, p. 25; John 1960, p. 9; Finberg, ECW, no. 557, authentic; Chaplais 1965, pp. 55-6, on diplomatic implications (= 1973, pp. 36-7); Vollrath 1985, pp. 139-40; Wormald 1988, no. 2; Edwards 1988, pp. 229-34, authentic; Campbell 1989, pp. 23, 30, cited with reference to land-sale; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 4-10, authentic.
Notes: S 1164 and 1256 form a single document, produced in 759. S 1256 explains the circumstances which led to the revision of the dispositive section of the 7th-century text which lies behind S 1164.
Rubric: + Donum regis Coin[..........] (MS damaged)
In nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi saluatoris. Ea que secundum ecclesiasticam disciplinam ac sinodalia decreta salubriter definiuntur, quamuis solus sermo sufficeret, tamen pro euitanda futura temporis ambiguitatem fidelissimis scripturis documentis sunt commendanda. Quapropter ego Coinredus, pro remedio anime mee et relaxacione piaculorum meorum, aliquam terre particulam donare decreuerim uenerabili uiro Bectune abbati, id est .xxx. manentes. De aquilone riuus nomine Funtamel, ex meredie habet terram beate memorie Leotheri episcopi. Nam earundem supradictarum
Hoc signum ego Cyniheardus indignus episcopus impressi ad confirmandam roborandamque hanc cartulam quam huiusmodi conscriptum esse fateor. Successor abbatis prenominati Bectuni, Catuuali nomine, dedit terram supradesignatam .xxx. manencium Wintran abbati pro pecunia sua et scripsit libellum alium donacionis huius atque possessionis suprascripte. Subtraxit tamen et donacionis prime litteras et subscripciones regum episcoporum abbatum atque principum quia inter cetera terrarum suarum testimonia hec eadem terre particula conscripta non facile potuit eripi neque adhuc potest. Et propterea decedentibus primis testibus longa deceptacio inter familias duorum monasteriorum orta est et perseuerat usque nunc. Habeant autem hanc terram semper ex quo a prefato abbate primo data est Wintran successores eius, et alterius familie et successores primum libellum que manibus predictorum testium roboratur. Iccirco ego nunc atque rex noster