S 139

A.D. 793 x 796 (Clobeshoas). King Offa to Æthelmund, his minister; grant of 55 hides (cassati) at Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucs. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19790 (s. viii 2; BM Facs., ii. 5; Pal. Soc., ser. i, pl. 12; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 180; Making of England, p. 204 [no. 158]; Morgan 1876, opp. p. 190; Brown 1996, p. 206, fig. 22)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 52r-v (s. xi 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 109-10, ex MS 2; Hearne, Heming, p. 565, ex MS 3; K, 167; HS, pp. 483-4; B, 274; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 87; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 368-9

Printed and Translated:

Morgan 1876, pp. 190-1

Comments:

Sweet, OET, pp. 431-2 (nos 15-16); Stevenson 1914, pp. 689 n. 3, 692 n. 16, 696 nn. 36 & 37, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 440 n. 35, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 54 n. 4); Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Stenton 1955, p. 58 n. 1, cited; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 180, MS 1 is contemporaneous, very probably original; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 29-30, 41, on script; John 1966, p. 107 n., respectable; Brooks 1971, p. 78, on reservation of common burdens; Stenton 1971, p. 289, cited with reference to reservation clause; Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-iv, MS 1 trustworthy; Finberg, ECWM, no. 49, authentic; Sawyer 1978, pp. 143, 145, on estate; Scharer 1982, pp. 274-7, contemporary; Wormald 1982, p. 123; Brown 1986, p. 134, on script; Wormald 1986, p. 155-6, original, discusses background; Abels 1988, p. 53; Cubitt 1989, p. 35, abbot Utel in witness-list perhaps later Bishop Utel of Hereford; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 38-9, 175, on beneficiary; Whybra 1990, p. 44; The Making of England, pp. 203-4 (no. 158); Wormald 1993, pp. 220-2, on background and estate history; Keynes 1994c, pp. 8, 14; Cubitt 1995, p. 274, contemporary; Abrams 1996, p. 243, on documentation for Westbury; Brown 1996, pp. 165-8, on script of MS 1; Thompson 2006, pp. 20 et passim, on script

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    • Endorsement (s. xi): Westbyrig + Px In nomine summi tonantis qui est Deus benedictus in sæcula amen . Regibus potentibus et huius sæculi divitibus cum fallacibus istius lugubri mundi substantiis quæ omnia sicut umbra evanescunt . æternæ vitæ præmia mercanda sunt . Quapropter ego Offa rex a rege reguum constitutus . terram . l .v. cassatorum in provincia huuicciorum ubi nominatur . Uuestburg . prope flumen qui dicitur Aben . Æ∂elmundo fideli meo ministro pro ereptione animæ meæ in libertatem perpetuam sub hac condicione libens concedo , ita ut ab omni tributo parvo vel majore publicalium rerum et a cunctis operibus vel regis vel principis sit in perpetuum libera , preter expeditionalibus causis et pont'i'um structionum et arcium munimentum quod omni populo necesse est ab eo opere nullum excussatum esse , Scripta est autem hæc libertatis kartula ab universo concilio synodali in loco celeberrimo qui nuncupatur . Clobeshoas . quorum signa et nomina infra tenentur . . , + Ego Offa rex Dei dono propriam donationis libertatem signo sanctæ crucis confirmo . + Ego Ecgfer∂ filius regis consensi . + Signum Hygeberhti archiepiscopi . + Signum Æ∂elheardi archiepiscopi . + Signum Ceolulfi . episcopi . + Signum Ha∂oredi . episcopi . + Signum Unu'u'ona . episcopi . + Signum [C]yneberht . episcopi . + Signum [D]enefer∂i . episcopi . + Signum Ceolmundi . episcopi . + Signum Coenwalh . episcopi . + Signum Uuermundis . episcopi . + Signum Alhheardi . episcopi . + Signum Ælfhuni episcopi . + Signum Uuiohtuni episcopi . + Signum Alhmund abbatis . + Signum Beonnan abbatis . + Signum Uuigmundi abbatis . + Signum Utel , abbatis . + Brorda . + Esne . + Heardberht . + Ubba . + Bynna . + Æ∂elmund . + Uuynberht . + Lulling . + Alhmund + Uuigberht . + Ceolmund . + Eafing .