S 154

A.D. 799 (? for 802) (Coleshill, Warwicks.). King Coenwulf to Balthun, abbot; grant of 30 hides (manentes) belonging to Kempsey minster, Worcs., in exchange for 12 hides at Harvington, Worcs. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 2r-3r (s. xi 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; from lost original)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 127-8; Hearne, Heming, pp. 5, 451-3, ex Mon. Angl.; Hearne, Heming, p. 565, ex MS 3; K, 176; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 592 (no. 24); B, 295

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, cited; Robinson 1919, p. 9, authenticity uncertain; Stenton 1955, pp. 27-8, fragments of ancient formulas but the date impossible, incarnation year agrees with indiction but is incompatible with reference to Egbert of Wessex; Finberg, ECWM, no. 233, authentic, suggests Ecberht is an error for Berhtric; Hooke 1983, p. 23, on meeting-place; Hooke 1990, p. 91, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 171, accepts date and rejects allusion to peace treaty as antiquarian addition, for the beneficiary cf. S 1262 and pp. 356-7; Whybra 1990, p. 33; Keynes 1994c, p. 14 n. 61; Keynes 1998, p. 3, on mention of Ecgberht

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    • + Tempora temporibus succedunt atque ad finem tamquam decidens folium in præceps transeat Ideo omnes firmas statutiones litterarum serie commendamus ne forte in posterum aliquis ignorantiae avaritiaeve fraude inlectus infringere presumat decretalia patrum fidelium . sicut Grecorum est consuetudo quia quicquid firmiter scire volunt litteris commendant ne ex mermoria labetur . Hanc vero terram Coenwulf rex donans donat Balthuno abbati et liberam conscripsit . in omnibus tam in campo quam in silva tam etiam in flunaine et in omnibus utilitatibus ad eandem rite terram pertinentibus in monasterium quae dicitur Kemesei . xxx . manentium sive ad habendum tam diu vivat et post se suis heredibus cuicumque voluerit liberam donando habeat facultatem . Et nulli homini nichil facere de eadem terra exceptis tantum iii causis pontem facere et arcem et expeditionem . Hanc quoque libertatem prefati monasterii Balthun Abbas comparavit . a prædicto rege Coenwulfo et illi dedit terram . xii . manentium in loco qui vocatur Hereford sive ad habendum suisque heredibus perhenniter relinquendum ut eo firmius et immutabilius hoc decretum permaneat . De partibus vero et de causis singulare solvere prætium et nihil aliud de hac terra . et eandem libertatem ego Coenwulf rex donabo Balthune abbati sive ad habendum tam diu vivat . et post se suis heredibus perhenniter ad perfruendum . Pax servantibus it consentientibus huic donationi . Contradicentibus discordia semper sine fine amen . Haec cartula scripta est anno dominice incarnationis . dcc . xc o . viiii a . indictione . vii a . eodem anno facta est pax inter Merciones et occidentales Saxones et cum juramentis firma foedere roborata est sub regibus Coenwulfo et Ecberhto . Hanc donationem consensit et cum sua manu signum crucis inposuit . Cum episcopis et principibus quorum nomina hic infra habentur . In eodem concilio qui dicitur Colles hyl . + Ego Coenwulf rex Crucem Christi inposui . + Ego Æˇelheard archiepiscopus similiter . + Ego Unwona episcopus . + Ego Cyneberht episcopus . + Ego Alcheard episcopus . + Ego Tidfer∂ episcopus . + Ego Ceolmund minister . + Ego Cu∂red dux . + Ego Esne dux . + Ego Heabert dux . + Ego Wigheard dux .