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S 1172
A.D. 692 x 709. Nothgyth to Wilfrid, bishop; grant of land at Lidsey, Aldingbourne, Genestedegate (cf. Westergate) and Mundham, Sussex, which she had been given by her brother Nothhelm (cf. S 45). With later confirmations by Offa and Ceolwulf I, kings of Mercia, and Æthelwulf, king of Wessex. Latin
Archive:
Selsey
MSS:
1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 16v (s. xiv)
Printed:
Mon. Angl., iii. 116; K, 1060; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1163 (no. 4); B, 79, ex Mon. Angl; Kelly, Selsey, no. 2
Printed and Translated:
Barker 1947, pp. 71-3
Comments:
Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438 n. 24, obvious forgery (= Stenton 1970, p. 52 n. 5); Barker 1947, p. 73; John 1960, pp. 8, 47; John 1966, p. 91, mainly authentic; Edwards 1988, p. 296, spurious endorsement to S 45; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 15-22, probably authentic, should be treated as an addition to S 45, rather than as a separate document
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- (b) Ego Noghgide famula Christi prefatam terram illam quam michi hereditarie per manus consanguineorum meorum in propriam potestatem trado Wilfrido episcopo reuerendissimo, hoc est .xxxiii. tributariorum, meque ei monacham facio, prestante Domino, deuota mente paratam peregrinari coram Deo omnipotenti. (c) Ego Offa rex Merciorum illam donationem que in alia parte huius paginule plenissime scripta tenetur cum meis fidelissimis testibus firmiter firmo. Ego Offa rex crucis signum impono + et cetera cum aliis testibus. Ego Edelwlf gratia Dei occidentalium Saxonum rex qui donaui cum signo crucis Christi propriam manum impono ab omni regali seruicio et omni secularium causarum absoluta seruitute. Si hoc quis minuere uel mutare presumpserit, noscat se ante tribunal Christi rationem redditurum, nisi prius satisfaccione emendauerit. Ego Ceolwlf rex Merciorum hanc prefatam terram, secundum peticionem Keinredi episcopi et eius placabil[ ... ], id est in numero .c. mancuse, ab omnibus curis secularibus in ecclesiasticam libertatem perdonabo cum meis fidelibus testibus et illis rogantibus et consencientibus. + Eadbrithus episcopus. + Keinredus episcopus. + Siredus dux. + Wulfridus dux. Acta sunt hec in uilla que dicitur Deanitone.
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- S 1172 is an addition to S 45, rather than a separate document. See S 45.