S 1301

A.D. 962. Oswald, bishop, to Eadmær, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Bentley in Holt, saltpans at Upwich (lost, in Droitwich) and woodland at Bradley, all in Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 68v-69r (s. xi 1)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 159v (s. xi 2; bounds only)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 144-5, ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 352, ex MS 2; K, 498 and vol. iii. 459; B, 1087

Comments:

Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 138-41, on bounds; PN Worcs., p. 287; Finberg, ECWM, no. 282, authentic; Hooke 1981a, pp. 130, 136, 145, 151, on salt-working, and for Upwich see map p. 130; Hooke 1985, pp. 110, 158, cited; Hooke 1989a, p. 119, on woodland; Hooke 1990, pp. 248-50, on bounds; Whybra 1990, p. 54

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    • Beonetleah . Eadmære [7] Wulfrune . + Ego Osuuald gratia Dei episcopus cum consensu ac licentia Eadgari . regis Anglorum et Ælfhere ducis Merciorum quandam ruris particulam quod a gnosticis . Beonetlæage appellatur . ii . videlicet mansas cuidam ministro meo nomine . Eadmær . cum omnibus illud rite pertinentibus quattuorque vascula ad coctionem salis on uppic et silvam necessariam on Bradanlæge ad illam præparationem salis pertinentes perpetua largitus sum hereditate et post vitæ sue terminum duobus tantum heredibus immunem derelinquat quibus defunctis aeclesia Dei in Wiogorna ceastre restituatur . Sit autem terra ista libera omni regi nisi aeclesiastici censi id est duos modios de mundo grano et nichil foras ad poenam . ˝is synd ˇa lond gemæru to beonetlæge ærust of sæuerne on bæle onlong bæle on siht for∂ of siht for∂ on bærbroc of bær broce on ˇa aldan dic onlong dices on hiort burnan ondlong hiort burnan neoˇan to heafne hrycge ˇæt swa nor∂ rih∂ eft on bæle on ˇa dic onlong ∂ære dic in doferic ondlong doferices on sæuerne ondlong sæuerne eft on bæle . Anno dominicae incarnationis . dcccclxii . scriptum est haec carta is testibus consentientibus quorum inferius nomina notantur . Eadmær wæs se forma man 7 Wulfrun is ˇe o∂er . + Ego Wulfric presbiter . + Ego Ælfric presbiter . + Ego Eadgar diaconus . + Ego Ælfred clericus . + Ego Kynstan clericus . + Ego Eadwine clericus . + Ego Wulfhun clericus . + Ego Cynsige clericus . + Ego Æˇelstan clericus . + Ego Cyneˇegn clericus . + Ego Wulfgar clericus . + Ego Byrhstan clericus . + Ego Wistan clericus . + Ego Wulfheah clericus .