S 1170
A.D. 688 (August). Baldred to Aldhelm, abbot; grant of 100 hides (manentes) near the river Avon, round the wood called Stercanlei (cf. Startley Farm in Great Somerford, Wilts.) and at Cnebbanburg, in exchange for 100 hides (cassati) east of the wood called Braydon, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 9v-10r (s. xiv/xv)
2. PRO E 164/24, 123r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 15v-16v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 83v (s. xii)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 11; K 28 ex Wharton and MS 1; Brewer, Reg. Malm., p. 284 ex MS 2; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 353-4 ex MS 4; B 71 ex Brewer, Hamilton, K and MS 1.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 17, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438, of ill repute (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); PN Wilts., p. 73; Darlington 1955, pp. 4, 90; Ekwall 1962, p. 15, associates Cnebbanburg with Nabal's farm in Sutton Benger; Finberg, ECW, no. 186, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 17, 26-7, 31, 43, on place-names; Scharer 1982, p. 93 n. 47, dubious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 94-7, authentic.
In nomine domini Dei nostri et salvatoris Jhesu Christi ! Ego Baldred aliquam terram Aldelmo abbati impendere decrevi , id est juxta flumen Avene et circa silvam quæ vocatur Stercanlei et Cnebbanburg centum manentes ; et ab eo . c . cassatos pro vice suscepi , id est , ex plaga orientalis silvæ cujus vocabulum est Bradon ; et hoc cum consilio et confirmatione Kentwini regis et omnium principum ac senatorum ejus roboratum est . Si quis contra hæc venire temptaverit , sciat se ante tribunal æterni judicis et coram sanctis angelis rationem redditurum . Scripta est autem hæc donatio , immo vicaria commutatio , mense Augusto , indictione prima , anno ab incarnatione Christi, dcmo. lxxx.o viiivo. .
+ Ego Headdi episcopus confirmavi .
+ Signum manus Ceduuallani .
+ Signum manus Baldredi .
+ Signum manus Cisi .
+ Ego Uuudda subscripsi .
+ Ego Uuinberchtus subscripsi .