S 1387

A.D. 1016 x 1020, probably 1018. Eadnoth, bishop, to Beorhtnoth; mortgage of a yardland by the river Creedy, Devon (? Creedy Barton in Newton St Cyres). English and Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Exeter (ex Crediton)

MSS:

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. III, verso (BA Facs., 27, dorse)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Roll ii. 11 (s. xiii)

Printed:

Davidson 1878, p. 239, ex MS 2; Earle, p. 422, from Davidson; Napier and Stevenson, p. 9 (no. 4, endorsement), ex MS 1; Hooke 1994, p. 194, bounds only

Translated:

Davidson 1878, p. 242; Earle, pp. 422-3; Napier and Stevenson, p. 77

Comments:

Davidson 1878, pp. 251-4, identifies land as Lower Creedy; Earle, p. 423, authentic; Napier and Stevenson, pp. 76-80, authentic; Finberg, ECDC, no. 52; Bishop 1955, p 195, apograph; Chaplais 1966, p. 11, probably genuine, hand is of s. xi med. (= 1981, XV p. 11); Finberg 1969, p. 64; BA Facs., p. 9, lease probably added to dorse of S 405 in third quarter of s. xi; Lawson 1993, pp. 68-9, 193; Hooke 1994, pp. 193-5, on bounds

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    • + In nomine domini nostri Iesu Christi. Ic Eadno∂ bisceop cy∂e on ˇisson gewriton . ˇæt ic onborgede .xxx. mancsa goldes be leadgewihte to minre landhreddinge æt beorhno∂e. 7 ic gesealde hym ane gyrde landes to underw