S 284
[A.D. 824 x 833]. Egbert, king, to the church of Winchester; restitution of 40 hides (mansae) at Alresford, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: BL Add. 15350, 22r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1039; B 398; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 42.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1921, pp. 69-77, bounds describe Old and New Alredford, Medstead and part of Wield; Finberg, ECW, no. 14, spurious, text and bounds identical with S 242, witnesses taken from a genuine charter of 824 x 833; Edwards 1988, p. 148, 10th-century fabrication; Dumville 1992, p. 46 n. 91, spurious; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1111-12, esp. p. 1111 n. 4, spurious in received form, some details derived from a charter of mid 820s.
Renovatio regis Egberhti de Alresforda .
+ Domino nostro Jhesu Christo imperpetuum regnante cui cuncta jure famulantur elementa mundi . Omnibus ut reor luce clarius mortalibus patet quod digne gloria parvipendenda est mundi . quia decidit ut flos feni .
Quapropter ego Ecgbyrht . largiflua summi tonantis annuente clementia regali fretus dignitate quandam ruris partem . xl . scilicet mansas in loco qui ab incolis huius patriæ Alresford nuncupatur cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus . pratis . silvis . pascuisque . Sicut prædecessor meus . Cynewalc . divino scilicet adtactus instinctu jamdudum concessit . æcclesiæquæ Wintoniæ in almæ Trinitatis veræque unitatis honore nec non et apostolorum Petri Paulique consecrata consistit . pro meorum expiatione facinorum libens perpetualiter restituo . Hanc donationem cum omnium mei temporis consensu procerum tali curavi renovare assertione . ut nulla meorum persona successorum diabolicæ astu calliditatis insollescens eam unquam in aliud transferre præsumat . Sit hoc prædictum rus omni terrenæ servitutis jugo solutum tribus exceptis expeditione pontis arcisvæ restauratione .
Si quis igitur hanc nostram donationem augere voluerit ; ei plura in præsenti vita adicientur bona . Minuentem vero terra vivum dehiscat atque ejus anima pro tanti commisso criminis reatu cum Juda Christi proditore perpetuas sine fine luat penas . nisi hic digna satisfactione emendaverit quod contra almam Trinitatem veramque unitatem temere deliquid .
Ðis synt þa land ge mero to Alresforda erest of cendefer on þa 7heafda . 7lang 7heafda on þa witan dic . 7 dic on burclea . of burchlea 7 lang mearc weges on smalan dene . þanan to bucgan oran . þonan ford be wyrt walan to Wiglummes putte . þonon to spreot mere . þonan on þæt twigbutme del . of þam delle on beran del . þonne on feld dene . and lang dene to wuda . swa be mearce to grenmeres stigele . þonan to lammeres geate . of þam geate to bocmeres stigele . þonan to beammeres geate . of þam geate to hamerdene geate þonne to hremmescumbes geate . þonan to eacges geate . þonne to dunnes stigele . þonan on witleage . þonne to þere bradan æc . þonne and lang mearce to dreigtune on þone ford . of þam forda to wuda forda . þonan suð and lang mearce to þe sgares suð ende . þonne and lang mearce in on æwyllas . and lang ewyllas in on to Ticceburnan 7lang ticceburnan on Icenan and lang icenan þær cendefer 7 Iccene cumað togædere . 7lang cendefer þær hit ær up eode ;
Ego Ecgbyrhtus . rex hanc meam donationem signo almæ crucis
Christi corroborando propria manu confirmo .
Signum manus propriæ Uuigthegni episcopi .
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Signum manus Hereferði episcopi .
Signum manus Hunes præfecti .
Signum manus Monnede præfecti .
Signum manus Burghardi præfecti .
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Signum manus Wethelmes præfecti .