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S 270a

A.D. 801. Edbirtus (? Egbert), king of Wessex, to Eadgils, his minister; grant of 20 hides (mansiones) at Butleigh, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.

Archive: Glastonbury

MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 153r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 169r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 38 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 32)

Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 843; K 178 and vol. vi. 227 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 47 (no. 84) from MS 2; B 300 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 426 (no. 762) ex MS 1.

Comments: K 178 suggests donor was Queen Eadburh; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. p. cxlviii, suggests donor was King Egbert; Finberg, ECW, no. 401, authentic basis, accepts that donor was Egbert, king of Wessex, witnesses recur in S 268; Scott 1981, pp. 110, 201 n. 103; Edwards 1988, pp. 56-9, substantially genuine, donor was Queen Eadburh; Costen 1992, p. 43, on estate, dates bounds to s. x²; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 32, 38, on MS sources, pp. 61, 76-7, on estate history, p. 76 n. 163, donor most likely to have been King Egbert.

Carta Edberti regis de Buddecleigh.

+ Regnante imperpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . et hæc temporalia terræ regna circumque voluerit dispensante .

Ego Edbirtus rex eodem donante occidentalium Saxonum Eadgilso ministro meo ob ejus amabile obsequium et fidelem famulatum . terram viginti mansionum in loco qui dicitur Bodecanleighe . insolubili jure sibi suisque hæredibus . ab omni regali fisco liberam . præter expeditionem et muniminis atque pontis operationem . libenter impendo . hanc munificentiam largitatis anno dominicæ incarnationis .dccci. sic perstringens ut nemo successorum nostrorum sine ira Dei violare præsumat . Et hæc sunt testium nomina apiscibus literarum adjuncta .

+ Ego Cinebirt circumspector æcclesiarum Dei .
+ Ego Whitberd episcopus .
+ Ego Witfer minister .
+ Ego Lulla præfectus .
+ Ego Muca abbas .
+ Ego Whitbrord præfectus .

Hæc sunt territoria . Erist on bregedeswere þanen on langen esher so on lancherpille . þanen on ucking Echer so on þe suellen to strete so to stanpille on langes þan weies on holenweie to coppanleighe so on þa Woldespaþ . þanen on bodekaleie . so on driganleghe . þanen on Wriuwoldeswei of þan on Goldwei . so on cranhunterestone of þan on þa oldelake to hoctanyth on þe olde yo . þanen on selfith so on Welesith . of þer ythe on bregredeswere .

Haunc cartulam reddidit Eadburth ad æcclesiam Glastingensem.

+ Ego Ecgberht rex hanc meam donationem signum crucis Christi inpressi .
+ Ego Cialnoth gratia Dei archiepiscopus hanc prædictam donationem cum signo sanctae crucis Christi roboravi 7 subscripsi.
+ Ego Beornmod episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego Alhstan episcopus consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Coenred episcopus consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Osmod dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Uulfhard dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Eanuulf dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Bofa dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Drihtnoth abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Freodoric abbas consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Heaberht diaconus consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Beornmod minister consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Heanoth minister consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Oshere minister consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Alhhere minister consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Lulla minister consensi 7 subscripsi .