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S 94

A.D. 716 x 737. Æthelbald, king of Mercia and of the South Angles, to Æthelric, comes; grant of 20 hides (cassati) in regione ... Stoppingas at Wootton, Warwicks. Latin.

Archive: Worcester

MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 103rv (s. xi¹)

Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 218-19; K 83; B 157; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 35.

Comments: Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 442, formulas and name-forms contemporary (= Stenton 1970, p. 56); Stenton 1918/1, p. 257, authentic; PN Warwicks., p. xvii, cited; Stenton 1955, pp. 35-6, authentic; John 1966, pp. 105-6, authentic; Chaplais 1968, p. 333, on royal style (= 1973, p. 85); Hart, ECNE, no. 46, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 38, 42, 43, on place-names; Sawyer 1978, p. 160, cited with reference to place-name; Scharer 1982, pp. 176-9, authentic, date later rather than earlier within range; Hooke 1985, pp. 110, 134-5, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Scharer 1988, p. 57, on royal style; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 35 n. 99, pp. 149-50, genuine; Bassett 1996, p. 164, on estate.

Into Wærincg Wican . Wudu tun.

+ Ego Æthilbalth . Non solum Mercensium . sed et universarum provinciarum quæ communi vocabulo dicuntur . Suthengli . divina largiente gratia . Rex . reverentissimo comiti meo mihique satis caro . filio quondam Huuicciorum regis . Oosheræs . Æthilricæ . terram viginti cassatorum in possessionem æcclesiasticæ rationis atque regulæ . Cum consensu vel episcoporum vel optimatum meorum larga mentis benivolentia donans concedo . Est autem idem ager qui traditur in regione quæ antiquitus nominatur . Stoppingas . in loco qui vetusto vocabulo dicitur Uuidutuun , juxta fluvium quem priores nostri appellare solebant et adhuc nominantur . Æluuinnæ . Omnem itaque hunc agrum intra terminos ab antiquis possessoribus constitutos . Cum campis et saltibus et pratis necnon et universis qui ex eo provenire possint necessariis redituum usibus . Ita nimirum præfato comiti meo Æthilricæ . in jus monasticæ rationis rogatus ab eo tradens largior . ut et ipse quamdiu vita comite voluerit prospere possideat . et cuicumque placuerit vel se vivente vel obeunte ea condicione qua sibi traditum acceperit licenter omnino nobis concedentibus libens tradat .

+ Ego Æthilbalth . hanc donationem meam subscripsi .
+ Ego . Uuor episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego . Piot . abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Uuilfrith . comes consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego . Sigibed . comes consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Oba . comes consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego . Beorcol . comes consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Heardberht . frater regis subscripsi .
+ Ego . Eadberht . comes subscripsi .
+ Ego . Tepra . consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Aduulf . consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Ceoba . consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Stronglic . consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego . Beonna . consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego . Uuilfriht episcopus consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego . Cuthred . abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Eobe . abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego . Æthiluuald . abbas consentiens subscripsi .
+ Ego Ælbred consentiens sub[scripsi.]