S 347
A.D. 891 (2 Aug.). Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, to Berhtwulf, his faithful comes; grant of 12 hides (manentes) at Plush in Buckland Newton, Dorset, and 2 (? for 5) at Raddington, Somerset, in exchange for land at Sutton Poyntz, Dorset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 199r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 228rv (s. xiv)
Printed: K 319 and vol. vi. 227-8 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 57-8 (no. 123) ex MS 2; B 564 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 624-5 (no. 1165) ex MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 155 n. 3, spurious; Grundy, Dorset 1933, pp. 263-8, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 421, authentic; John 1966, p. 45, on royal style; Whitelock 1979, pp. 85-6, abbreviated, may be authentic although either the incarnation year or the indiction is wrong, discusses beneficiary; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 227 n. 1, on royal style; PN Dorset, i. 233, 237, 238, iii. 247-8, 254-5; Dumville 1992, pp. 45-6, cited; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1136, contemporary formulation, cf. S 348; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 36, 39, on MS sources, pp. 64-5, 219, on estates.
Plyssche . Carta Aelfredi regis facta Bertulpho comiti de Plusshe .
Ego Aelfredus gratia Dei Anglorum Saxonum rex meo fideli comite deprecanti Berthulpho nomine aliquantulum terrae pro commutatione alterius terrae dedi atque perpetualiter concessi ab omnibus saecularibus negotiis liberam praeter expeditionem et pontis arcisve instructionem . est autem ipsa terra quantitate septem decim manentium in duobus locis constituta in loco qui dicitur . Plyssche . duodecim manentium . et in loco qui dicitur Radingtone . ii . manentium .
Recepi itaque a praefato comite pro istis terris terram eadem quantitatis quem ruricoli Suttone appellant juxta litus maris in paga qui dicitur Dorset et est ipsa terra aequaliter ut superius memorate liberata .
Istis autem circumdatus est terminibus locus qui dicitur Plyssche . Erest on Ruanberghe þanne on stanwey . þanne on stanbrok . þanne on radenwey . þanne on lillanwelle . þanne op on hagen . þanne on an hul to hamme . þanen on an welle up on brugh doune on warrode þanen on windberghes . þanen endlang herepathes on þar weilete . þanen on widdisgate . þanen over thorncombe on anne crundil . þanen in on þe weilete . þanen west over Plisshe on an Sticholnelniche . þanen on an White Wey . þanen on schilleburghe . þanen on ellene crundil . þanon on cliveleghe . þanen over whetecombe on alden doune op bi wirtrone on an ruwe dich . þannen adoun over yfre þanen out on bromhulle of bromhulle eft on Ruanberghe .
Acta est haec scriptio huius cartulae . anno dominicae incarnationis . dccc.x.ci. indictione .vii. die . vero .iii. nonas Augusti . Istis consentientibus testibus quorum nomina subtus notantur .
+ Aluredus rex subscripsi .
+ Berthulphus dux consensi .
Cum multis aliis .