S 1377
A.D. 963 x 975 (? 971 x 975). Æthelwold, bishop, and Wulfstan Uccea; exchange of land at Washington, Sussex, for land at Yaxley, Hunts. (given to Thorney), and at Ailsworth, Northants. (given to Peterborough). The Ailsworth estate was forfeited by a widow and her son condemned for witchcraft. English.
Archive: Peterborough
MSS: London, Soc. Ant., 60, 54v-55r (s. xii med.)
Printed: K 591; Thorpe, pp. 229-30, with translation; B 1131; Robertson, Charters, no. 37 (p. 68), with translation, p. 69; Barker 1949, p 102, with translation.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 112 (pp. 562-3).
Comments: Whitelock, Wills, pp. 129-30, on Wulfstan Uccea; Robertson, Charters, pp. 322-4; Hart, ECEE, no. 12, authentic, cf. p. 169; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, dates 971 x 975; Hill 1976 (= Hill 1976/1); Whitelock, EHD, p. 562; Wormald 1988, no. 43; Davies 1989, on witchcraft aspect.
Her sutelað on þyssum gewrite þet Aþelwold bisceop 7 Wulstan uccea hwyrfdon landa on Eadgares cyninge's' 7 on his witena gewytnesse. Se bisceop sealde Wulstane þet land æt Hwessingatune . 7 Wulstan sealde him þet land æt Jaceslea 7 æt Ægeleswurðe . þa sealde Se bisceop þet land æt Jaceslea into Þornige 7 þet æt Ægeleswyrðe into Buruh . 7 þæt land æt Ægeleswyrðe headde an wyduwe 7 hire sune ær forwyrt forþanþe hi drifon serne stacan on Ælsie Wulfstanes feder 7 þæt werð æreafe 7 man teh þæt morð forð of hire inclifan . þa nam man þæt wif 7 adrencte hi æt Lundene brigce 7 hire sune ætberst 7 werð utlah 7 þæt land eode þam kynge to handa 7 se kyng hit forgeaf þa Ælfsige 7 Wulstan Uccea his sunu hit sealde eft Adeluuolde bisceope swa swa hit her bufan sægð.