S 1174
A.D. 706. Æthelric, son of King Oshere, with the consent of Cenred. king of the Mercians, to St Mary's at Hom (Evesham); grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Childswickham, Worcs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Evesham
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 33r (s. xii)
2. BL Harley 3763, 66v (s. xii)
Printed: K 57 and vol. iii ex MS 2; B 117 ex K and MS 2; Hooke 1990, p. 40, bounds only.
Comments: HS, p. 280, spurious; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 64-71, boundary survey a clumsy forgery; Levison 1946, pp. 8, 264, spurious or dubious, has same preamble as S 133; PN Gloucs., ii. 4, 7, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 202, spurious; Scharer 1982, p. 247, spurious; Hooke 1990, pp. 40-3, rejects Grundy's interpretation of bounds, survey does indeed relate to Childswickham but was copied later than 706.
+ Evidentia rerum experimenta declarant cassabundam mortalium vitam innumeris cotidie calamitatibus constringi . ita dumtaxat ut ab hiis quibus teneri ac possideri putantur . repente momentaneo intervallo lugubriter evanescunt . Idcirco singulis quibusque sollerter studendum est dum indulta temporum spatia Dei nutu concessa sustinent ; ne sine fructu spiritualium virtutum easdem inducias transeamus . Idcirco in nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi regnantis in perpetuum universa quæ subsistunt constant ; in cujus etiam nomine hæc scriptura confirmata sit . et pro cujus æque amore Ego Ailricus Oseri regis filius exiguam ruris portiunculam . viii . videlicet manentium in loco qui dicitur Childeswicwon consentiente rege Kenredo domino meo tradens donabo ad locum qui dicitur Ethom ob honorem Dei genetricis Mariæ, pro remedio animæ meæ omnibus diebus possidendam . et ab omni sæculari servitio liberam . exceptis arcis restauratione . et pontis . et expeditionis obsequio . Si quis autem hanc meam donationem augere voluerit ; augeat Deus partem illius in perpetuum in terra viventium. Hæc autem syngrapha caraxata est anno dominicæ incarnationis dcco . vio . His testibus consentientibus quorum nomina inferius caraxata videntur .
Ego Ailricus Oseri regis filius hanc donationem meam confirmando signo sanctæ crucis + munivi .
+ Ego Kenredus rex Merciorum consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego Brithwaldus archiepiscopus in nomine sanctæ et individuæ trinitatis corroboravi .
+ Ego Ecgwinus episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Hinwald subscripsi .
+ Ego Brithwin abbas consensi .
+ Ego Waldhere consensi .
+ Ego Helwald subscripsi .
+ Ego Eilmund consensi .
+ Ego Ethelber subscripsi .
Est autem hæc præfata terra hiis limitibus circumsepta . West from Wicwone Beornedune at þe stapele Siþe Brade mere norþ fro Beornedune Siþe þe Wowe brondred . Siþe to þe Waritroe oppe longedune Siþe to þe þistelmere . siþe pinkenden into esthemmere . þat cum eft to Beornedune .