S 755

A.D. 967. King Edgar to Wulfnoth Rumuncant, his faithful vassalus; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Lesneage and Pennare in St Keverne, Cornwall. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Exeter

MSS:

1. Exeter, D.C., 2521 (s. xi 2; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 6)

Printed:

Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 6-7 n; K, 534; Davidson 1883, pp. 276-7; B, 1197; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 4; Hooke 1994, pp. 37, 40, bounds only

Comments:

Davidson 1883, pp. 274-6, authentic; Henderson 1931, pp. 66, 71, on bounds; Finberg, ECDC, p. 18 (no. 84); Bishop 1955, p. 195, apograph in the same hand as S 770 and 832; Chaplais 1966, pp. 13-14 (no. 13), no decisive argument against authenticity, a copy written in third quarter of s. xi in same hand as S 770 and 832, apparently at Exeter (= 1981, XV pp. 13-14); Padel 1978, p. 25 n. 22; Whitelock, EHD, p. 378, on subscription of diocesan bishop; Keynes 1980, p. 28 n. 46, on subscription of diocesan bishop; Padel 1981, p. 66, on a boundary mark; Padel, CoPNE, pp. 43, 49, 124, 197; Olson 1989, p. 108; Hooke 1991-2, p. 84; Hooke 1994, pp. 37-40, on bounds

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    • + Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Cunctis sophie studium ferme rimantibus stabili notum constat ratione quod presentis esentiæ periculis incubantibus et curis evanescentium rerum inopinate crebrescentibus humana mortali