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A.D. 729 (Pencrik). Æthelheard, king of Wessex, and Queen Frithugyth to Coengisl, abbot, and the familia in Glastonbury minster; grant of 60 hides (manentes) at Pouholt (cf. Polden Hills, Somerset). Latin with bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 219v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 152r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 15 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 31)
Printed: K 76 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 53-4 (no. 106) ex MS 2; B 147 from K ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 372 (no. 648) ex MS 1.
Comments: Davidson 1884, p. 12; Stevenson 1904, p. 201, doubtful; Robinson 1921, p. 36, form is suspicious but content may be sound; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 114-16, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 381, authentic; Scott 1981, pp. 102, 199 n. 94; Morland 1982, modifies Grundy's interpretation of bounds; Corcos 1983, pp. 48-9, on estate history; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 40-1, probably authentic, pp. 48-52, on formulation; Abrams 1991, pp. 124-7, authenticity uncertain, may be an early forgery, discusses history of estate; Costen 1992, p. 41, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 13, 28, 31, on MS sources, pp. 98, 179, 204-11, 219 n. 24, on estate history.
Schapwik.
Ego Athelardus rex Westsaxona . simulque regina Fridogiþa terræ partem quæ appellatur Pouholt . id est sexaginta manencia . cum consensu nostrorum episcoporum Danielis ac Fortheres . optimatumque . pro redemptione animarum nostrarum in possessionem stabilem familiæ . quæ in monasterio Glastingaburi sub religioso abbate Cengislo fideli Deo famulatur obsequio . liberali confirmamus munificentia . ita ut ex hoc inconvulso jure prefata possessio ipsius monasterii usibus mancipetur . unde ad amplioris adstipulacionis documentum subscripcionum contestacionibus hanc ipsam roborare decrevimus donacionem hocque ipsum idoneorum quoque testium solenni subrogata a titulacione firmari curavimus. Quapropter si quis quovis deinceps tempore . tirannica fretus insolencia . sub qualibet occasione . interrumpere atque in irritum deducere insolubile placiti istius testamentum nisus fuerit . sit a consorcio piorum ultimi examinis ventilabro dispertitus . rapaciumque collegio conbinatus violentiæ suæ pænas luat. Si quis vero benivola pocius preditus intencione hæc probare ac defendere studuerit . videat bona domini in terra vivencium. Huius donacionis cartula conscripta ac promulgata est anno ab incarnacione Christi dcc . xxix . sub presencia regis Athelardi venerandorumque antistitum Danielis atque Fortheris . optimatumque quorum nomina infra cum propriis indita subscripcionibus in loco . qui appellatur Pencrik. evidencioris indicii documentum prestant
+ Ego Athelardus rex propriæ manus subscripcione hanc donacionem ratam fieri decerno.
+ Ego Fridogitha regina consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Beornfrithus abbas consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Daniel . plebis Dei famulus . hanc donacionem canonice confirmavi.
+ Ego Fortherus episcopus confirmans subscripsi . et omnes principes consenserunt et confirmaverunt.
Sunt autem territoria istius agellis præfati habet ab oriente Chalkbrok ab austro dirimit Carswelle in Cari et Cari usque in locum que dicitur Chedesie et habet ab occidente territoria que pertinent ad Cosingtone ab aquilone partem dimidiam paludis.