S 1177

A.D. 704 x 709. Æthelheard and Æthelweard (rulers of the Hwicce) to Cuthswith; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Ingon, Warwicks., in return for 600 shillings. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3v (s. xvii; ex 1)

Printed:

Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 170, ex 1, cf. pp. 168-9; K, 53; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 5); B, 122; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 23

Comments:

Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic; PN Warwicks., p. 233; Chaplais 1968, p. 328, proem is an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola (= 1973, p. 79); Finberg, ECWM, p. 177 n., on beneficiary, cf. S 53; Hart, ECNE, no. 43, authentic; Cox 1976, p. 23, on place-name; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 9-10; Campbell 1989, p. 23, on sale of land; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 141 n. 122, 191, genuine; Lapidge 1993, p. 293 n., probably genuine; Hooke 1999, p. 17

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    • + In nomine Dei summi . Tempora temporibus subeunt , abiit et venit ætas . sola sanctorum gloria durat in Christo . Ideoque ego Ædilheardus et Ædiluueardus dabimus tibi Cudsuidæ terram quæ dicitur Ingin . v manentium quam tu