S 646
A.D. 957 (Edington, Wilts., 9 May). King Eadwig to Oda, archbishop; grant of 40 hides at Ely, Cambs. Latin.
Archive: probably Ely
MSS: 1. Bodleian, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. V (s. x med.; BA Facs., 5; Bishop 1957/1, plate 1, part only)
2. BL Add. 5819, 3r (s. xviii)
Printed: K 465 ex MS 2; B 999 ex MS 2; B 1347 ex MS 1; Napier and Stevenson, pp. 10-11 (no. 5) ex MS 1.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, pp. 80-8, original; Plummer 1899, p. 94, on identification; Robinson 1919, p. 44 n. 1, on identification; Robinson 1923, p. 119; Miller 1951, p. 15; Bishop 1957/1, pp. 371-2, scribe also wrote S 624; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, original, witten by Winchester scribe also responsible for S 624 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Hart, ECEE, no. 52, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 365, cited; Sawyer, Burton, p. 28, chrismon similar to those of S 602 and 649; Keynes 1980, pp. 25, 67, 68 n. 133, probably written by royal scribe; Sawyer 1983, p. 293, on meeting-place; Brooks 1984, pp. 224, 354 n. 55, probably a personal gift to Oda, not intended to enrich Canterbury; BA Facs., p. 4, original, clearly from Ely, queries script-identification with S 624; Hart 1992, pp. 445-9, on Eadwig's charters; Dumville 1993, p. 94; Wareham 1996, p. 47, on estate.
Endorsements:
(1) in same hand: + þis is þæs lændes boc æt helig ðe Eadwig cing gebocode Odan arce biscope on ece yrfe.
(2) in later but pre-Conquest hand: De Eðandune.
(3) in hand of late s. xiii: Eadredus
Px In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi. Diuina gratia largiente et originali prosapia antecessorum meorum . . . . Eadwig . rex totius brittannie fidelissimo meo archiepiscopo meoque patrono toto mentis affectu cum consensu meorum obtimatum .XL. mansas . perpetualiter concedo . Odono . vbi ab antiquis ruricolis uocatum est . æt Helig . Quatinus possideat et cuicumque uoluerit heredi derelinquat in æterna possessione . sit uero hoc rus predictum absolutum ab omni mundiali obstaculo exceptis his tribus que omnibus communia sunt id est expeditionis et arcis pontisue constructione Hæc donatio facta est Anno Dominice Incarnationis DCCCCLVII Indicitione XV. regni mei secundo in uilla que dicitur Eðandun .VII. Idus Maii . coram idoneis testibus quorum nomina infra collecta sunt . Siquis autem augere uoluerit tribuat illi deus in hoc seculo uitam longeuam et in futuro sempiternam . Sin autem minuere satagerit nostram liberam largitionem sit sotius eorum quibus dicet æquissimus libripens in die iudicii 'ite maledicti in ignem æternum . qui preparatus est diabolo et angelis eius' 1 . si non hic prius emendare maluerit.
+ Ego Eadwig rex anglorum cum consensu doctorum meorum con signo sancte crucis roboraui.
+ Ego Eadgar eiusdem regis frater consensi celeriter.
+ Ego Oda archiepiscopus Dorouernensis æcclesie Christi possedi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Ælfsinus presul sigillum agie crucis impressi.
+ Ego Byrhtelm episcopus confirmaui.
+ Ego Cenwald episcopus consignaui.
+ Ego Oscytel episcopus conroboraui.
+ Ego Osulf episcopus adquieui.
+ Ego Byrhtelm episcopus non rennui.
+ Ego Alfwold episcopus .
+ Ego Wulfsige episcopus .
+ Ego Aþulf episcopus .
+ Ego Cynesige episcopus .
+ Ego Daniel episcopus .
+ Æðelstan dux
+ Eadmund dux
+ Ælfhere dux
+ Æþelsige dux
+ Æþelwold dux
+ Byrhtnoð dux
+ Ælfheah minister
+ Ælfsige minister
+ Ælfred minister
+ Æþelgeard minister
+ Ælfsige minister
+ Æþelferþ minister
+ Ælfwine minister
+ Ælfric minister
+ Ælfgar minister
+ Byrhtferþ minister
+ Wulfgar minister
+ Wulfstan minister t'.
+ Ælfweard minister t'.
+ Wynsige minister t'.
+ Wulfric minister t'.
+ Ælfsige minister t'.
+ Eadric minister t'.
+ Alfwold minister t'.