S 231
A.D. 682 ? for 688 (Aug.). Cædwalla, king, to the church (of Malmesbury); grant of 132 hides (cassati) on either side of the wood named Kemele (? Kemble, Gloucs.). Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 9v (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 123r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 15rv (s. xiii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 51, ex MS 3 (??); K 24 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 258 (no. 8); Giles, Opera Aldhelmi, col. 312; Brewer, Reg. Malm., p. 283 ex MS 2; B 63 ex Brewer, K and MS 1; Morris 1995, p. 124 ex B.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 17, spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438, of ill repute (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); Darlington 1955, pp. 4, 89-90, dubious with genuine elements; Watkin 1956, p. 211 and n. 21, dubious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 4, spurious, indiction points to 688; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 97-100, may be authentic, incarnation date added; cf. S 234.
Omnia 'quæ videntur temporalia sunt : et quæ non videntur æterna sunt'1 . Iccirco visibilibus invisibilia et caducis cælestia præferenda sunt. Quamobrem ego Cedwalla, regnante domino rex, aliquod emolumentum ecclesiæ impendere decrevi . Id est terram ex utraque parte silvæ quæ appellatur Kemele , cxxxii . cassatos . Et ita fixa et immobilis hæc donacio perseveret; ut nullus hoc decretum frangere aut irritum facere præsumat. Si quis vero superba inflatus tyrannide hanc donacionem violare aut prævaricare temptaverit: noverit se in tremendo cunctorum examime coram judice vivorum et mortuorum rationem redditurum. Scripta est vero hæc cartula . Indictione . i . mense Augusto . Anno ab incarnatione domini . dclxxxii.
+ Ego Heddi episcopus consensi .
+ Signum manus Cedwallani regis .
+ Signum manus Cisi .
+ Ego Wynberchtus subscripsi .
1 II Cor. 4: 18.