S 1221

A.D. 1026. Healthegen (? Haldane) Scearpa to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Saltwood, Kent. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters x. 11 (s. xii; BM Facs., iv. 17)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 10 (S.C. 3847), p. 108 (s. xvii; incomplete)
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 201r (s. xii; note dated 1036, with addition of Hythe, Kent)
4. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 24v (s. xiii in.; note dated 1036, with addition of Hythe, Kent)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 330 (s. xiii; note dated 1036, with addition of Hythe, Kent)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, ff. 19v-20r (s. xvi 1; note dated 1036, with addition of Hythe, Kent)

Printed:

Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2223, ex MS 3; K, 742, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 9; Fleming 1997, pp. 140-1 (no. 69), ex MS 4

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, pp. 7, 74, 12th century; written on a fragment of an erased charter; Napier and Stevenson, p. 151, impossible witnesses; Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28, clearly spurious; Parsons 1939, pp. 16-17, 19-20, forgery based on partly erased scribal memorandum from 9th century; Harmer, Writs, p. 576, impossible witnesses for ostensible date; Darlington 1955, p. 29; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, plate III, palimpsest, parchment probably lower part of a 9th-century diploma which is incompletely erased, some subscriptions incorporated in upper script; Dumville 1983, pp. 49-50, MS 1 created by scribe of ASC MS F (BL Cotton Domition viii) from erased original, cf. also S 1088; Lowe 2001, Appendix III.25

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    • In nomine Domini nostri Iesu Christi Anno dominice incarnationis millesimo .xxvio. Ego Healthegen Scearpa do Saltuuda per concessionem domini mei regis . CNUT . ecclesie Christi Cantuarie, Christo ibi seruientibus monachis ad uictum eorum . pro remedio anime mee . et pro salute anime Leofedæge uxoris mee . proque absolutione anime Leoflæde que ante me eandem uillam eidem ecclesie Christi in Dorobernia concessit . Si quis quod non optamus hanc nostram donationem infringere temptauerit ð sit pars et societas eius cum Iuda qui pro auaritia sua tradidit ueritatem que est Christus . nisi plena satisfactione reconcilietur Deo et hominibus. Ego Cnut rex signo sancte crucis Christi roboraui et subscripsi. Ego Ælfgifa regina consensi et subscripsi. Ego Eagelnothus archiepiscopus . consensi et subscripsi. Ego Wlstanus archiepiscopus Eborace ciuitatis consensi et subscripsi. Ego Æluuinus episcopus Uuentoniensis . consensi et subscripsi. Ego Merehuuit episcopus Suuellensis . consensi et subscripsi. Ego Grimcytel episcopus Australium Saxonum. consensi et subscripsi. Ego Bhihtuualdus episcopus Scirburnensis. + Ego Goduuinus consensi et subscripsi + Ego Siuuardus dux consensi et subscripsi. + Ego Ealgar dux consensi et subscripsi + Ego Thurcyllus dux consensi et subscripsi + Ego Liofricus dux consensi et subscripsi + Ego Suuegen dux consensi et subscripsi + Ego Tosti dux consensi et subscripsi + Ego Edredus dux consensi et subscripsi + Ego Egberhtus minister consensi et subscripsi + Ego Brihtnodus minister consensi et subscripsi + Ego Eþelulf minister consensi et subscripsi + Ego Ealdred consensi et subscripsi Cartulary version: [E]odem anno rex Cnut venit in ciuitatem Doroberniam. Tunc venit ad eum quidam de principibus suis nomine Haldene et cepit ei dicere: ‘Notum est excellencie tue domine quid a te diu petiui de ecclesia ista, ut pro salute anime tue et mee huic familie Christi aliquantulam partem de terris meis impartire potuissem’. Cui rex respondit: ‘Quod diu petisti, iam inuenisti. Fac ut tibi bonum uidetur’. Statim absque omni dilacione precepit hoc scriptum facere, et factum coram rege et omnibus qui cum eo erant legere et regem rogauit id ipsum signo crucis confirmare. Ego Haldene Scearpa, per consensum et concessionem domini mei regis Cnutonis et optimatum suorum, concessi ecclesie Christi in Dorobernia, presente eodem rege in eadem ciuitate consistente, has terras, Hitham et Sealtuuoda, cum omnibus ad eas rite pertinentibus, campis, pratis, pascuis, siluis, seruis, ancillis, pecoribus, sicut eas melius et plenius preparare potui, pro salute anime mee et mulieris que easdem terras olim eidem ecclesie contulit. Siquis easdem uillas a predicta ecclesia elongauerit, ab omnipotente Deo excommunicatus in die magna iudicii a sinistra iudicis constitutus diabolo coniungatur.