S 922
A.D. 1009. King Æthelred to Morcar, his minister; grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Weston upon Trent, 1 at Marley, 1 at Smalley and Kidsley, 1 at Crich, and 1 at Ingleby, Derbys. Latin with English bounds of Weston.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/5/41 (s. xi1; BA Facs., no. 17)
2. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 182v = p. 364 (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 219-22; Sawyer, Burton, no. 32.
Comments: PN Derbys., ii. 512-13, on bounds; Whitelock 1959, p. 87, cited; Hart 1970/1, p. 24, on endorsement; Hart, ECNE, no. 110 and pp. 222-8, authentic, MS 1 original; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 63-4, authentic, MS 1 contemporary; Keynes 1980, pp. 114, 123, p. 135 n. 171, p. 264, original; Keynes 1980/1, pp. 216-17, on witness-list; BA Facs., p. 6, MS 1 apparently contemporary; Dumville 1993, pp. 134-5, on script.
A. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/5/41: original, parchement, 160 x 520-530 mm., damaged by folding.
Endorsements:
(1) by the scribe of the charter: + Westunes Landb?c .
(2) in a hand of s. xiii: Ethelredus rex Morkare
(3) in a hand of s. xiii: .[..] xx.
(4) in a medieval hand: XXXI
Px Omnia que uidentur temporalia sunt et que non uidentur æterna sunt . Idcirco terrenis et caducis eterna et iugiter mansura mercanda sunt . ut his uisibilibis lucris inuisibilia bona que fine carent domino Deo auxiliante feliciter adquirantur . Quapropter . ego Æþelredus . diuina mihi arridente munificentia . inperiali regiminis gentis Anglorum sceptro p[ ]titus . aliquam terre partem quam mihi aeternus celi creator et omnium rerum conditor sua bonitate largiendo indulsit . confero honorabili meo ministro . Morkare . id est . viii . manentes in loco et circa locum ubi dicitur antiquo uocabulo . Westun . et . i . manens in Morleage . et . i . in Smælleage . et in Kidesleage . et . i . in . Cryc . et . i . in Englaby . cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus pratis . pascuis . campis . siluisque ut habeat et possideat . et post se cuicumque uoluerit in æternam hereditatem derelinquat . Sint quoque prenominati agelluli absoluti et liberi . nullisque humanis seruitiis subiciantur . exceptis ipsis seruitiis quibus insistere quosque monet communis utilitas regni id est expeditio . et arcis pontisque restauratio . Qui autem hanc nostri decreti xanctionem prauo molimine mutilare conatus fuerit certum teneat portionem poenarum cum angelis apostaticis sé perpetualiter perpessurum non modica ; qui uero benigniter fideliterque huius assercioni cyrografi . fidem ?ccommodauerit ; sanctorum omnium coetui copuletur calcetenus . His itaque confiniis prescripta rura cinguntur .
+ Ðis syndan þa landgemæru þe lic[.]eð into westune. þæt is ærest of siðriðe forda [.]n mæres ford . 7 of mæresforda westa[.]iððarugandic . 7 swa on hina h?h . 7 swa of ðan h? westan wiððæne holanmere forð into ceoleardes beorge 7 of ðam beorhge in mæresdic . 7 of mæresdic in wulfeardes þ?rn . 7 of wulfeardes þorne in þa grenand?c . andlang þære dice in þone pytt . 7 of þam pytte in deorwentan in þa myðan . 7 of ðam ge[m]yðan upp æft' treontan eft on siðriðe ford .
Anno . dominice incarnationis . millesimo . ix . scripta est . uius munificentie singrapha his testibus . consentientibus quorum inferius nomina caraxantur .
+ Ego Æþelræd rex Anglorum hoc donum libenti animo concessi
+ Ego Æþelstan filius regis huic donationi consensi .
+ Ego Eadmund frater predicti clitonis adiuui .
+ Ego Eadred libens annui
+ Ego Ælfheah archiepiscopus Dorobernie non abnui .
+ Ego Wulfstanus Eboracensis archipresul non rennui .
+ Ego Godwine episcopus ad libitum regis propria manu conscripsi .
+ Ego Liuincg episcopus roboraui .
+ Ego Æþelwold episcopus adquieui .
+ Ego Aþulf episcopus subscripsi .
+ Ego Brih[tw]ald episcopus
+ Ego Eadnoð episcopus
+ Ego Alfun episcopus
+ Ego Æþelric episcopus
+ Ego Æþelsig episcopus
+ Ego Ælfwald episcopus
+ Ego Godwine episcopus
+ Ego Ælfgær episcopus
+ Ego Ælf's'tan episcopus
+ Ego Aldun episcopus
+ Ego Germanus abbas
+ Ego Ælf's'ig abbas
+ Ego Wulgar abbas
+ Ego Ælfsig abbas
+ Ego Brihtræd abbas
+ Ego Leofgar [a]bbas
+ Ego Æluere [ab]bas
+ Ego Ælfric dux
+ Ego Leofwine dux
+ Ego Eadric dux
+ Ego Uhtred dux
+ Ego Æþe'l'mær minister .
+ Ego Æþelric m_
+ Ego Ægelgær m_
+ Ego Ælfwine m_
+ Ego Ulfketel m_
+ Ego Godwine m_
+ Ego Siferð m_
+ Ego Wiðer m_
+ Ego Æþelwine m_
+ Ego Godw[ ] m_
+ Ego Fredgist m_
+ Ego Ulf m_
+ Ego Ælfeh m_
+ Ego Wulf[r]ic m_
+ Ego Ulfk[e]tel m_
+ Ego Þurferð m_
+ Ego Aske[t]el m_
+ Ego Wulfsig m_
+ Ego Kata m_
+ Ego Wulfstan m_
+ Ego Asketel m_
+ Ego Wulfgeat m_
+ Ego Aþelwold m_
+ Ego Ælfeh m_
+ Ego Styr m_
+ Ego Þurbrand m_
+ Ego Wulfstan m_
+ Ego Swaue m_
+ Ego Æþelric m_