S 114

A.D. 779 (Hartleford, Gloucs.; Gumley, Leics.). Offa, king of Mercia, to Duddonus (Dudda), minister; grant of 4 hides (cassatae) near Salmonsbury in Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Evesham

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 4 (s. viii 2; BM Facs., i. 10; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 184)

Printed:

K, 137; B, 230; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 69

Comments:

Sweet, OET, p. 431 (no. 14); Stenton 1905, p. 698, contemporary (= Stenton 1970, p. 1); Stenton 1918, pp. 440 n. 35, 445 n. 59, authentic (= Stenton 1970, pp. 54 n. 4, 60 n. 1); Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 31-3, on bounds; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 52-3, on bounds; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Stenton 1955, p. 60; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 184, contemporaneous, very probably original; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; PN Gloucs., i. 183, 197-8, 207, on bounds; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 29, 40, 43 n. 162; Stenton 1971, p. 309, cited; Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-xiv, trustworthy; Finberg, ECWM, no. 38, original; Finberg 1972, p. 445, cited; Sawyer 1978, p. 101, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 377, inflated style; Whitelock 1979, p. 80, on beneficiary; Scharer 1982, pp. 245-6, original; Hooke 1985, pp. 56, 210; Brown 1986, p. 132 n. 54, on script; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 150 n., 154-5, probably authentic although there is a lack of dated MSS for comparison; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 58, apparent original; Reynolds 1992, pp. 216-17 (= 1994, p. 328), on tenurial background; Keynes 1994c, pp. 21 n. 96, 49-50 n. 208; Brown 1996, p. 165, on script, associates with S 59 MS 1; Thompson 2006, pp. 20 et passim, on script

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    • Endorsement (s. ix or x): burhtunes boc. Px Aw. Regnanti in perpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo , Universa quippe quæ hic in præsentia visibus humanis corporaliter contemplantur nihil esse nisi vana et caduca transitoriaque ex sacrorum voluminum testimoniis certissimi verum patet , Et tamen cum istis æternaliter sine fine mansura alta polorum regna et jugiter florentis paradisi amoenitas mercari a fidelibus viris queunt . Qua propter ego Offa Deo cuncta pie disponente in cujus manu sunt omnia jura regnorum absque ulla antecidente merito rex Mercionum , Hoc mente præcogitans aliquam ruris partem pro amore caelestis patriae et pro remedio animæ meae fideli meo ministro Duddono , Hoc 'est' quatuor cassatas in jus ecclesiasticae liberalitatis in perpetuum possid . . . . . . . . libentissime concedens donabo , quatinus ut se vivente habe . . . . . . . . . deat , Et post se suae propinquitatis homini cui ipse vo . . . . . . possidendum libera utens potestate relinquat , Et hoc decer . . . . sua generationi hoc donativum meum pro Deo concessa sal . . . . . . permaneat , Et si quis ex heredum ejus quod absit maculo majore peccati forte inplicatus fuerit , dign . . . . . . scilicet pretio se emundet a delicto commisso , Manente tamen hac munificentiæ meæ dono nihilominus in sua stabilitate firmiter absque ulla commutatione , Est autem portio ruriculi illius attinens urbi illi qui nominatur 1 Sulmonnes burg ex utraque parte torrentis qui vocatur , Theodningc , in occidentali plaga fluvii qui nucubatur , uuenrisc , Sunt autem termini telluris istius hæc , ab austro , uithigford . usque inwinesburg . ab occidente 'vallis' qui dicitur turcadenu . ab aquilone slohtran ford . ab oriente fluvius ante nominatus uuænrisc , ad confirmandum vero huius antedicti telluris donationem testium et consentientium episcoporum abbatuum ac ducum meorum signa et nomina in hac cartula testimonii infra conscribta adnotabo . Conscribta est 'autem' hæc munificentia piissimi regis Offan anno ab incarnatione Christi . dcclxxviiii . Indictione secunda . anno decennovenali primo . lunari . xvii . µt iorotlaforda . + Ego Offa divina gubernante gratia rex Mercensium huic donationis meæ signum crucis infixi . + Ego Eadberhtus Dei dono episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Ceolulfus domino donante sacerdos consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Tilherus Christi gratia anti[stes] consensi et subscripsi . + Ego . . . geberhtus electus prµsul consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Aldberhtus gratia Dei episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Botuuine abbas consensi et subscripsi . + Signum manns Brordan principis . + Signum manus Berhtuualdi principis . + Signum manus Esne principis . + Signum manus Eanberhti principis . + Signum manus Eadbaldi principis . + Signum manus Esne principis . + Signum manus Brordan ducis . + Signum manus Bynni ducis . + Signum manus Eadbaldi pr'.. . . . . . . godmundes leah subscripserunt et confirmaverunt plurimi episcopi et optimates . 1. Nominabatur, with line through ba, MS.