A.D. 1047 x 1053. Stigand, bishop, and the community at Old Minster, to Wulfric; lease, for two lives, of 2 hides and one yardland at Alton Priors and three yardlands at Patney, Wilts., with meadow and pasture. English

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 74v (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 949; B, 390, last 13 lines

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 107 (pp. 202-3)

Comments:

Robertson, Charters, p. 450; Finberg, ECW, no. 336, authentic; Hart 1970a, p. 32 (no. 132), authentic; HRH, p. 236, probably genuine; Miller, New Minster, p. xxxvii, once in New Minster archive?

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    • Her swytela∂ on ˇissum gewrite ˇa foreweard ˇæ Stigand bisceop 7 se hired on ealdan mynstre worhtan wi∂ Wulfric ˇa ∂a hy letan him to ˇa twa hida landes æt Aweltune 7 ane gyrde . 7 æt Peattanigge ˇreo gyrda . 7 ˇa mæde ˇa gebyra∂ to ∂am gereflande 7 twegra getymæna læse . 7 tyn cuna for∂ mi∂ ˇas hlafordes . 7 his sceapa læse æfter ˇæs hlafordes his deg 7 anes mannes deg æfter him swylce hæ best geunne wi∂ swylcan sceatte swylce he hit ˇa findæ mihte. ˝ises is to gewitnesse, Stigand bisceop . 7 Godwine eorl . 7 se hired on ealdan mynstre . 7 Ælfwine abbot . 7 se hired on niwan mynstre and ealle scirˇegenas on Hamtunscire. ˝issa gewrita syndan ˇreo an is on ealdan mynstre . and oˇer is on Wiltune . and ˇridde æfed Wlfric.