S 738

A.D. 966. King Edgar to Ælfgifu, his kinswoman; grant of 10 hides (cassatae) at Newnham Murren, Oxon. Latin with English bounds.

Archive: Winchester, Old Minster

MSS: 1. BL Harley Ch. 43 C. 5 (s. xi; BM Facs., iii. 27)
2. BL Harley 596, 17v-18v (s. xvii)

Printed: K 526 and vol. iii. 465-6; B 1176; Earle, p. 294, bounds only.

Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, doubtful if MS 1 is contemporary; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 39-42, on bounds; PN Oxon., i. 11, 49, 50-1, 72, ii. 487, on bounds; Whitelock 1959, p. 78, contemporary; HRH, p. 230, original, subscriptions are consistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 277, original, bounds describe modern parish of Crowmarsh, which includes Newnham Murren, corrects details of Grundy's interpretation; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 17, pp. 77-9, 'Edgar A' formulation; Baines 1983, p. 110; Blair 1994, pp. 78, 125-6; cf. S 1484.

Endorsement in large letters:
+ þis is ðara . X . hida land boc æt Niwanham þe Eadgar cyning gebocode Aelfgife his magan on ece yrfe .

Px In nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi salvatorum

cuncta sæculorum patrimonia incertis successoribus et ignotis heredibus relinquantur et universa mundi gloria supremo mortis debito abolita repente terminatur . Idcirco fugitivis caducarum rerum possessionibus et transitoria substantiarum stipe diuturnum et jugiter mansurum caelestis patriæ premium domino largiente lucremur .

Quapropter ego . Eadgar . rex Anglorum ceterarumqu[e] gentium in circuitu persistenstium quoddam rus prediolum . X . scilicet cassatas cui solicolæ huiusce provincie antiqum indiderunt vocab[ulum] Niwanham . cuidam matrone ingenue que mihi affinitate mundialis cruoris conjuncta est que ab istius patrie gnosticis eleganti . Ælgifv . apellatur vocamine pro obsequio ejus devotissimo perpetua largitus sum hereditate

ut ipse vita comite cum omnibus utensilibus pratis pascuis silvis voti compos habeat et post vitæ suæ terminum quibuscumque voluerit cleronomi[s inmune]m derelinquat . Si't' autem predictum rus omni terrene servitutis jugo liberum

tribus exceptis rata videlicet expeditione pontis arcisve restauratione .

Si quis igitur hanc nostr'a'm donationem in aliud quam constituimus transferre voluerit privatus consortio sanctæ Dei ecclesiæ aeternis barathi incendiis lugubris jugiter cum Juda Christi proditore ejusque complicibus puniatur . Si non satisfactione emendaverit congrua quod contra nostrum deliquit decretum .

His metis rus hoc giratur .

Anno dominicæ incarnationis . DCCCCLXVI . scripta est haec carta his testibus consentientibus quorum inferius nomina caraxantur .

+ Þis sint þa gemæru to niwanhamme Cattan ege into niwan ham of þam hæþnan birigelsan up 7lang dic innan mær wege up 7lang mær wege þæt up on wearddune þær þæt cristel mæl stod of þan up on þa readan slo oþ þære ealdan byrig of þære readan slo on þæt crundel þær se haga utligeþ . Of þan crundelle innan mid slæde 7lang mid slædes on þa grægan hane of þære grægan hane 7lang hearp dene on cealfa leage neoþe wearde of cealfa leage a be hagen 7 be þan ealdan wege in on þæt bec siþþan 7lang beces on tæmese 7lang ea on cattan ege .

+ Ego Eadgar rex totius Brittannie præfatum donationem cum singillo sanctæ crucis confirmavi .
+ Ego Dunstan Doronensis æcclesiæ archiepiscopus eusdem regis donationem [c]um triumpho agie crucis consignavi .
+ Ego Oscytel archiepiscopus triumphalem tropheum agie crucis inpressi .
+ Ego Ælfstan Lundoniensis æcclesiæ episcopus consignavi .
+ Ego Aþelwold Wintaniensis æcclesiæ episcopus pre[sen]tem domum [c]onsensi .
+ Ego Osulf episcopus confirmavi .
+ Ego Alfwold episcopus consignavi .
+ Ego Osuuold episcopus roboravi .
+ Ego Uinsige episcopus consolidavi .
+ Ego Alfwold episcopus subscripsi
+ Ego Ælfstan episcopus corroboravi .
+ Ego Ælfric abbas .
+ Ego Æscwig abbas .
+ Ego Osgar abbas .
+ Ego Ælfstan abbas .
+ Ego Æþelgar abbas .
+ Ego Cyneweard abbas .
+ Ego [O]rdbriht abbas .
[+] Ego Ælf[her]e [dux] .
[+] Ego Æ[lfh]ea[h dux] .
[+] Ego Ordgar dux .
+ Ego Æþelstan dux .
+ Ego Æþelwine dux .
+ Ego Byrhtnoþ dux .
+ Ego Þ . . . o . . dux .
+ Ego Byrhtferð minister .
+ . . . . . . . . . . .
+ . . . . . . . minister .
+ Ego Oslac minister .
+ Ego Wulfstan minister .
+ Ego Osulf minister. .
+ Ego Osweard minister .
+ Ego Ælfweard minister .
+ Ego Ælfsige minister .
+ Ego Osferð minister .
+ Ego Æþelweard minister .
+ Ego Ælfric minister .
+ Ego Æþelsige [minister] .
+ Ego Æþelsige [minister] .
+ Ego Alfwold [minister] .
+ Ego Eadric [minister] .
+ Ego Æþelferð [minister] .
+ Ego Wulfsige minister .
+ Ego Ælfsige minister .