S 1253

A.D. 712. Forthhere, bishop (of Sherborne), to Ealdberht, abbot (of Glastonbury); grant of 1 hide (cassatus) by the river Axe, near Bleadney, Somerset. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 134v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 150r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 11 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 838, ex MS 2; K, 63, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 47 (no. 83); B, 128, ex K and MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 25; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 363 (no. 640), ex MS 1

Comments:

Robinson 1921, p. 34 n. 1, apparently genuine; Finberg, ECW, no. 376, authentic, indiction points to 718; Cox 1976, pp. 17, 43, on place-names; Scott 1981, pp. 94, 198 n. 88; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 34-6, abbreviated text of authentic charter; Foot 1991, p. 173, charter may be based on a genuine grant; abbot Eadlberht may have been abbot of Glastonbury; Costen 1992, p. 38, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 31, 35, 38, 62-3, 157-8, 165-6, on MS sources, on estate and boundary marks

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    • Carta Fortere episcopi facta abbati Aldberto de Bledeneye . Ego Fortere, famulus famulorum Dei , pro redemptione animæ meæ unum cassatum dedi Aldberto abbati quæ scita est juxta fluvium Aesce, ad portam quæ dicitur Bledenithe, ad insulam parvam et ad ecclesiam beati Martini confessoris , in propriam substanciam . Habendum donandumque cuicumque voluerit. Qui haunc cartam infringere temptaverit sciat seipsum a communione sanctorum separatum et ab omnipotenti Deo . + Ego Fortere consensi et subscripsi . Acta est autem hec donatio anno . dcc . xii . indictione prima .