S 1252

A.D. 699 x 717. Ecgwine, bishop, to Æthelheard; grant for life of Fladbury minster and its endowment of 44 hides (manentes), with reversion to the church of Worcester, in exchange for 20 hides at Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwicks. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 1
2. London, British Library, Add. 46204, recto (s. xi)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 10r (s. xi 1)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019) (s. xvii; no witnesses; ex 3)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 121, ex MS 3; Smith, Bede, p. 765, ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 455, ex Mon. Angl; K, 33, ex Smith and MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 6); B, 76, endorsement ex Smith and K; Stevenson 1911, p. 201, ex MS 2

Translated:

Jones 1958, pp. 63-4

Comments:

Wanley, Catalogus, p. 301 no. 1; Finberg, ECWM, no. 198, authentic, endorsement to S 76; Hart, ECNE, no. 41, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 32-3, on place-names; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 22, cited; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 141, 161-2, basic authenticity confirmed by S 62; on minster at Stratford; Lapidge 1993, p. 293 n., probably genuine; Hooke 1999, pp. 20-1

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    • Reverentissimæ semper memoriæ pontificis Oftfori ego Ecguuine , Deo dispensante , successor in episcopatum existo . Monasterium autem cui nomen est Fledanburg , quod in hac eadem cartula ex altera ejus parte eidem prædicto prædecessori meo subscriptione regali traditum asseratur , huic venerabili nostro secundum sæculum Æthilheardæ, quantum id a me fieri potest , in possessionem concedo ; ea tamen conditione , ut semper mihi inibi cænobialis vitæ statuta serventur . Pro reconpensatione vero huius nostræ donationis , in loco cujus nomen est Æt-stretfordæ . xx . cassatorum terram ab eo in jus æcclesiasticum accepi . Sciendum tamen me rationabili quadam causa compulsum id voluisse facere , ut ei . xliiii . manentium terram pro viginti manentium darem ; id est ea conditione ut post diem ejus terra ista sine contradictione alicujus ad Uuegernensem ecclesiam in jus episcopalis sedis sit donata , mihi et illi Oftforoque meo antecessori , in elemosinam sempiternam . Pax confirmantibus atque servantibus ; minuentibus vero vel contradicentibus dispersio perveniat sempiterna . Æthelric . Ætheluueard . Æthelberht . Omolincg abbas. Hii sunt confirmatores et testes .