S 791
A.D. 973. King Edgar to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 7 hides (mansiunculae) at High Ham, Somerset, in exchange for land at Braunton, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 174r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 190v-191r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 83 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: K 577 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 92) ex MS 2; B 1294 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 22, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 493 (no. 901) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 118-25, on bounds; Turner 1951; Finberg, ECDC, p. 12 (no. 40); Finberg, ECW, no. 517, authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, 'Dunstan B' formulation; Hooke 1994, p. 115, cited; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. p. 178; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 33, 38, on MS sources, pp. 66-9, on Braunton, pp. 134-5, on Ham.
Hamme.
Carta Edgari regis de Hamme .
Anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi D . C . C . C . C . L . X . XIII o .
Ego Edgar divina allubescente gracia rex et primicerius tocius Albionis ruris quandam particulam septenis ab accolis estimatam mansiunculis in loco qui dicitur Hamme liberam .
preter arcem pontem expedicionem
ad ecclesiam beate Dei genitricis Marie que scita est in monasterio quod dicitur Glastingaburghe in perpetuam possessionem libenter amdomum largitus sum
ad supplementum necessarium fraterne conversacionis ibidem Deo serviencium .
hoc precipiens in nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi ut nostrorum nemo successorum christiano vigente nunime hoc nostrum decretum audeat violare quod si quisque temptaverit hic et imperpetuum perpetuas inferni penas luat .
Hoc tamen inter notandum est quod hec prefata terra in Hamme adepta est supradicto monasterio per commutacionem alterius terre que dicitur Brancminstre et acta est hec commutacio pacta vicissitudine per consilium et licenciam omnium optimatum nostrorum quorum inferius nomina carraxantur .
Hec sunt territoria .
Erest on smalmoresheued suthe end lang mors al so þe pil schet of red mor estward so south to pille endlang pilles on mirranford . þanen on wernanford mudeward op on wernanstreme of þe pirie þanen liggith þritti acres þis kingis and þanen geth hit est on werne . op endlang wernestremes on bradan mores heued þanen on þe smalehegrewe on widanleighe westward þanen on fautesham northward endlang weies on þe olde dich on swicombesheued on wolcombesheued for biethe of . wolschern westward þanen on holanwei upward on þan stone so eure bi eue on snapan westward þanen on stanwei vpward endlang weies on russeleighe upward so on henleighe westward þanen on wirtroneshoe on peret westward þanen on middemor endlang mores eft on smalemor .
Þanen is þis merelande other manne þare kinge and þare bisschop on pulisswiran to þan seuen hidin at hamme to þe come to Hiwissh' tuelfacres .
Ego Edgar rex Anglorum consensi .
+ Ego Dunstan archiepiscopus subscripsi cum multis aliis .