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A.D. 869. Æthelred, king of Wessex, to Wulfhere, his princeps; grant of 25 hides (cassati) at Winterbourne (Monkton), Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 206v (s. xiv; dated 969)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 240v-241r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 115 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: B 886 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 671-2 (no. 1236) ex MS 1.
Comments: B 886 n., correctly identifies donor and date, Bishop Edmund probably for Heahmund; Darlington 1955, pp. 7, 96, probably refers to West Monkton; Grundy, Wilts. 1920, p. 23, fails to trace bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 211, authentic basis possible; Scott 1981, pp. 112, 201 n. 106; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3, on formulation; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1123-34, esp. p. 1125, authentic, perhaps drafted by royal scribe; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 34, 36, 39, on MS sources, pp. 249-52, on estate history.
Carta Eddredi regis facta principi suo Wulfero de Winterborne .
Regnante imperpetuo domino nostro Jhesu Christo summo et ineffabili rerum creatori ac moderatori omnium tempora qui sua multimoda disponens potencia temporibus ut voluerit finem imponet . Iccirco cunctis agendum est ut hic bonis actibus future beatitudinis felicitatem adipisci mereantur .
Quapropter Ego Ethred gracia Dei occidentalium rex dono atque concedo dilecto ac venerabili meo principi Wulfero aliquam partem terre jure mei id est . viginti quinque cassatos in loco qui appellatur bi . Winterborne . in propriam atque perpetuam hereditatem libenter largitus sibi suisque heredibus hoc est ut habeat atque possideat prefatam terram cum omnibus utilitatibus ad eam pertinentibus campis pratis paschuis . et post finem vite illius heredi cuicumque placuerit liberam habeat potestatem . Terra hec predicta secura et immunis permaneat Ab omni regali servicio et omnium secularium servitute nisi expedicione et pontis factione et arcis municione .
Hec sunt termini terre . Erest on endeburgh and so on cathole . þanne on clivesburgh . þanne on crawenburgh þanne on doddam mere þanen on Smalewey þanen os puddokesburghe þanne on Whiteston þanne on Stremeston þanne on þe White weye þane on þe redeslo þanne on rigte Weye þanne on egelferdeston þanne on Wulvesburghe þanne on Wringput . þanne on davidisdich þanne eft on endeburgh .
Si quis hanc meam donacionem augere et amplificare voluerit augeat Deus bona illius hic et in futuro . Si quis hoc frangere vel imitare presumpserit sciat se coram Christo et omnibus sanctis in die judicii redditurum racionem nisi ante satisfactione emendaverit . Scripta est hec donacionis cartula anno dominice incarnacionis . d . c . c . clxix . his testibus consencientibus quorum nomina infra scripta videntur esse .
+ Ego Edred Rex consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego Edmund episcopus consensi et subscripsi cum multis aliis .