S 1227

? A.D. 1046 x 1062. Wilburh, widow, to Worcester minster; grant, after her death, of 1 hide (mansa) at Shurnock in Feckenham, Worcs. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 151v-152r (s. xi 2)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 336-7; K, 951; B, 1006; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 84

Comments:

Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 112-13, on bounds; Ker 1948, pp. 59, 67-8, one of thirteen charters, 'as a group untrustworthy'; Finberg, ECWM, no. 358, authentic, undated, but according to Hearne (Heming, p. 517) the gift was made or took effect in the time of Bishop Ealdred; Hooke 1990, pp. 348-50, on bounds

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    • De sciran ac . Px Omnis usiæ1 opifici sit laus Deo patri ejusque unigenito cum sancto spiritu qui genus humanum per gustum prohibiti fructus perditum crucis patibulo redemit . cujus benignissimæ miserationis opere creati . mortis secundæ poenam quæ primi parentis incuria contigit . evadere multimodis speramus . Ipsius itaque annuente clementia ego . Wihburhga vidua concedo totius boni retributori . et piissimæ ac beatissimæ ejus genitrici Mariæ mansam videlicet unam in villa quæ nuncupatur . Sciran ac . Ita scilicet ut post finem meum sit illa prenominata mansa ad remedium animæ meæ pro conditione et recordatione sepulturæ corporis mei monasterio Wigornensi . et fratribus ibi Deo servientibus in possessione hereditatis perpetuæ deputata . Et qui in aliqua fraude vel discrepatione per diabolicam gastrimariam istud frangere aut minuere temptaverit . sciat se cum rapacibus et peccatoribus esse conjunctum . et sine ullo honore in æterna dampnatione cum diabulo dampnatum et sociis ejus . nisi hic Deo et hominibus cum digna satisfactione emendaverit . ˘is is ˇæt landgemære to sciren ac . Ærest of wines brycge ondlang lecc to ˇæs preostes mædwe into feccan ham . onlang ˇæs broces ˇæt hit cymeˇ to ipples berhge 7 swa eal abutan ˇæt hit cym∂ eft in ˇone ilcan brocc . 7 swa æfter ∂am broce to wahgenes gemære . of wahgenes gemære ˇæt hit cyme to ˇære pirian . '7 of ˇære pirian' to ˇam walle ˇe is in ∂am holan wege . 7 of ˇam walle wahge'nes ge'mæres eft into wines brycge . 1 Birch notes Greek [ousias], which Liddell & Scott define as either one's own property or being, existence