S 1255

A.D. 774. Milred, bishop of Worcester, to Æthelburh, abbess; lease, for life, of 21 hides (manentia) at Withington, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of St Peter, Worcester. The land had previously been granted by Oshere, subregulus of the Hwicce, to Dunne, famula Dei, and by Dunne to her grand-daughter Hrothwaru (cf. S 1429). Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 25v-26r (s. xi 1)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 122; Hearne, Heming, pp. 54, 466-7, ex Mon. Angl.; Hearne, Heming, p. 564, ex MS 3; K, 124; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 586 (no. 10); B, 217, ex MS 1 etc; Earle, pp. 52-3; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 61

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 75 (pp. 503-4)

Comments:

Finberg 1964, pp. 22-3; Finberg, ECWM, no. 32, authentic, Milred's subscription should refer to the requirement that the minster at Twyning revert to Worcester after Æthelburh's death, as arranged by her father Alfred (cf. Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i, 608), but this is concealed by scribal error; Finberg 1972, p. 390, on river-name; Lapidge 1975, pp. 800, 815; Whitelock, EHD, p. 503; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 37 n. 113, 132, 158; Whybra 1990, pp. 18, 36, 60

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    • Wudian dun. + Domino et salvatore nostro perpetualiter regnanti . Ego Milredus Christi tribuente gratia humilis Huicciorum episcopus terram monasterii quod nominatur Uuidiandun . quod situm est in occidentali parte fluvii qui dicitur Tillno∂ . xxi . manentia . quam videlicet terram Oshere subregulus Huicciorum Dunnan famulæ Dei ut esset juris ecclesiastici tradidit . consentiente Æ∂elredo regi Marcionum . Illa autem præfatam terram post se reliquid possidendam filiæ filiæ suæ . Hro∂uuare . scilicet abbatissæ . cum conscientia . atque licentia . Egcuuini reverentissimi episcopi . at illa prædicta Hro∂uuara abbatissa mihi in jus propriæ libertatis atque possessionis largitus est . Nunc ergo cum licentia servorum Dei . qui sub meo regimine Dei providentia constituuntur . libenter Æ∂elburge honorabili abbatissæ . filiæ Ælfredi eam trado . ita tamen ut ipsa vivente habeat et possideat . et post obitum ejus ad æcclesiam beati Petri principis apostolorum . quæ sita est in Uueogerna civitate ubi et pontificalis cathedra Huicciorum constituitur pro æterna redemptione animæ meæ iterum reddat . Hæc cartula scripta est anno ab incarnatione Christi. dcc . lxx . iiii . indictione xii . his testibus confirmantibus . + Ego Milred . episcopus hanc meam donationem signo crucis confirmabo . ea contradictione ut illa Æˇelburh illud monasterium æt Uueogernacestre cum omnibus bonis quæ ibi sunt post diem ejus ad Uueogernensem quoque reddat æcclesiam . sicut præceptum erat patris ejus Ælfredi .