S 464

A.D. 940. King Edmund to Æthelswith, a nun; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Oswaldingtune (near Ashford, Kent). Latin with English bounds.

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 62 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 10)

Printed: K 385; B 753; Earle, pp. 175-7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 72.

Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 246-51, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, pp. 372-7, original; Ker, Catalogue, p. xxxiii, on script; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, Winchester scribe, also responsible for S 447, 512 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Sawyer, Burton, p. 8, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 16, 24 n. 33, p. 45, original, product of 'Æthelstan C'; Meyer 1981, p. 345, cited; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, 159, on script.

Notes: Last six witnesses added by a different scribe.

Endorsements:
(1) in a contemporary hand: + þis is Oswalding tunes boc þe Eadmund cing gebocade Æþelswiþe [on] ece yrfe
(2) in a hand of s. xii: Rex Edmundus dedit Oswalding tun cuidam femine nomine Eþelsuiþe . latine .

+ Regnante inperpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Dum conditoris nostri providentia omnis creatura valde bona in principio formata formoseque creata atque speciose plasmata est supra et infra cælos tam in angelis quam etiam in hominibus ac in multimodis ac diversis speciebus jumentorum animalium piscium volucrum . Sicque ab initio mundi usque ad finem statuta precepta conditoris sui jure custodiunt nisi homo solus qui ad imaginem suum creatus et omnibus prelatus creaturis propter prævaricationem conruens in mortem .

Quapropter ego . Eadmundus . rex Anglorum cælestis patrie exardens cuidam religiose sancte monialis femine vocitate . Æðelswiþe . x . mansas largiendo condonavi illic ubi vulgus prisco relatione vocitat . æt Oswalding villam . Quatinus ille bene perfruatur ac perpetualiter possideat dum huius labentis evi cursum transeat inlesus atque vitalis spiritus in corruptibili carne inhereat . et post se cuicumque voluerit perenniter heredi derelinquat ceu supra diximus in æternam hereditatem . Sit autem predictum rus liber ab omni mundiali obstaculo cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus . campis . pascuis . pratis . silvis . silvarumque nemoribus . excepto istis tribus expeditione pontis arcisve coædificatione . Si quis autem quod non optamus hanc nostram difinitionem elationis habitu incedens infringere temptaverit perpessus sit gelidis glaciarum flatibus et pennino exercitu malignorum spirituum . nisi prius inriguis poenitentiæ gemitibus et pura emendatione emendaverit .

Istis terminibus predicta terra circumgyrata esse videtur . Þis synt þa land gemæro to oswalding tune . ærest ælfgyðe mearc on eastan oð teting ford þonne þonan west oþ done þonne þonan oþ eadgife mearce þonne þonan to þæs biscopes mearce to cirringe of cirringe norþ þonan to emecing mere .

To oswalding tune hierþ . holen hyrst . 7 byrhttring den . 7 eoreding den . 7 liccing den . 7 hereferþes lea . 7 dynning den . 7 cyrþring hyrst . 7 trip hyrst 7 insnadis into oswalding tune . 7 seo mæd æt brunes forda 7 seo mæd æt beo broce hierþ into oswalding tune .

Acta est hæc prefata donatio . Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . dccccxl . Indictione xiii .

+ Ego Eadmundus Rex Anglorum præfatam donationem cum sigillo sancte + crucis confirmavi .
+ Ego Wulfhelm Dorobonensis æcclesie archiepiscopus ejusdem regis donationem cum tropheo agiæ + crucis consignavi .
+ Ego Eadred ejusdem regis frater consignavi .
+ Ego Þeodred Lundoniensis æcclesie episcopus consignavi .
+ Ego Ælfheah Wintaniensis æcclesie episcopus triumphalem tropheum agiæ + crucis inpressi .
+ Ego Cenwald Episcopus predictum donum consensi .
+ Ego Oda episcopus confirmavi .
+ Ego Ælfric episcopus consignavi .
+ Ego Wulfhun episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Wulfhelm episcopus consignavi
+ Ego Burgric episcopus consensi .
+ Ego Æþelgar episcopus roboravi .
+ Ælfhere . dux .
+ Wulfgar . dux .
+ Æthelstan . dux .
+ Uhtred . dux .
+ Odda . minister .
+ Ælfric . minister .
+ Eadmund . minister .
+ Wulfsige . minister .
+ Wullaf . minister .
+ Æþelwold . minister .
+ Ælfred . minister .
+ Wulfgar . minister .
+ Ælfsige . minister .
+ Ordeah . minister .
+ Eadric . minister .
+ Ealhhelm . minister .
+ Ælfsige . minister .
+ Æþered . minister .
+ Æþelmund . minister .
+ Wulfhelm . minister .
+ Wulfheah . minister .
+ Wulfsige . minister .
+ Wulfnoð . minister .
+ Æðelstan . minister .
+ Æðelsige . minister .
+ Eanulf . minister .