S 520
A.D. 946. (Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey) King Eadred to Wulfric; grant of 7 hides (manentes) at Warkton, Northants. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: Somers Ch. 11 (lost)
Printed: Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302 (no. 11), incomplete, ex MS; Smith, Bede, p. 772, ex MS; K 411; B 815; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 86.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 105 (pp. 551-2).
Comments: Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, MS of unusual type with crosses of differing form; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Hart, ECNE, no. 3, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-viii, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters, p. 551, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; BA Facs., p. 12; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters.
+ Concedente gratia Dei
anno dominicæ Incarnationis
DCCCC . XLVI .
contigit post obitum
Eadmundi regis .
qui regimina regnorum .
Angulsaxna 7 Norþhymbra .
Paganorum . Brettonumque
septem annorum intervallo
regaliter gubernabat .
quod Eadred frater ejus uterinus .
electione optimatum
subrogatus . pontificali
auctoritate eodem anno
caðolice est rex 7 rector .
ad regna quadripertiti
regiminis consecratus .
qui denique rex
in villa quæ dicitur regis .
Cynges tun .
ubi 7 consecratio peracta est .
plura plurimis perenniter
condonavit charismata ;
hoc potest pro certo .
Wulfric . pedisequus
alacriter conlaudere .
quem honorifice
idem rex locupletata
largitate lætificat .
concedens ei terram
VII . manentium jure
perpetuo perfruendam
certis tramitibus
uti fertur inferius
terminatam ad Wurcing tune .
magnis rebus ac modicis
præter arcem . atque pontem .
agonisque obsequium usurpatam ;
Ista porro usurpatio .
Anno dominice incarnationis
DCCCC . XLVI . 7 primo
temporalis cicli laterculo
quo sceptra diadematum
Angulsaxna cum Norþhymbris .
7 paganorum cum Brettonibus
gubernabat .
his testibus quorum nomina
subsequuntur conscribentibus
hoc modo peracta est : .
+ Eadred rex . cum archiepiscopis
ceterisque præsulibus
hanc tellurem triumphali
tropheo usurpavit ;
+ Oda Archiepiscopus .
+ Wulfstan Archiepiscopus .
+ Ðeodred Episcopus .
+ Aelfhæh Episcopus .
+ Wulfgar Episcopus .
+ Koenwald Episcopus .
+ Aelfric Episcopus .
+ Wulfhelm Episcopus .
+ Wulfsige pontifex .
+ Aelfred pontifex .
+ Aeþelgar pontifex .
+ Aeþelwald pontifex .
+ Howæl regulus .
+ Marcant ;
Cadmo .
+ Aeþelmund dux .
+ Alhhelm aldermon .
+ Aeþelstan comes .
+ Eadric princeps .
+ Osulf Hæhgerefa .
+ Urm ,
Imorcer eorl .
+ Grim ;
+ 7coll eorl .
+ Eadred abbud .
+ Wigstan abbud .
+ Dunstan abbud .
+ Uhtred : .
Augentes regale elogium .
beatae regis
aeterni retributionem
augmentum accipiant ; Amen : .