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S 180
A.D. 816. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his clergy at Worcester; grant of privileges for land at Whittington, Spetchley and Tolladine in North Claines, for 30 hides (manentes) at Weogorena-leage (Hallow), and for 25 hides at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs., in return for 14 hides at Sture. Latin with bounds
Archive:
Worcester
MSS:
1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 1r-v (s. xi 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 172v-173v (s. xi 2; shortened)
4. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 129v (s. xvii; incomplete; from lost original)
5. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 5r-v (s. xvii; from lost original)
Printed:
Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 173-4, from MS 1; Hearne, Heming, pp. 1-3, from MS 2; Hearne, Heming, pp. 381-3, from MS 3; Hearne, Heming, p. 556, from MS 4; K, 210; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 588 (no. 15); HS, pp. 585-6; B, 357; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 117; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 459-60
Translated:
Jones 1958, pp. 75-6
Comments:
Stevenson 1914, p. 696 n. 37, cited; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, genuine, model for S 181 (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Stenton 1971, pp. 284, 493, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 242 and pp. 184-6, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 463, cited; Hooke 1980, p. 41, on topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 113-15, on bounds and estate; Whybra 1990, p. 33; Keynes 1994c, p. 19 n. 83; Cubitt 1995, p. 285, probably authentic; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 138; Wormald, English Law, p. 108
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- De Ceaddesleage . + Gubernante altithrono tonanti cunctaque mundi monarchia moderanti qui est et qui erat et qui venturus est . cujus melliflua gratia adridenti . ego Coenwulf rex Merciorum regimina sceptri cum consilio et consensu pantorum procerum prætorumque meorum quorum infra caraxata liquescunt vocabulæ meo præclaro atque præponito pontifici Deneberto videlicet et ejus delecta Uuegornensis æcclesiæ congregationi . hoc libertatis et expeditionis privilegium de istis territoriis componere decrevi . hoc est Huitingtun et speacleahtun et teolowaldingeoto et hæc ab oriente est fluminis saebrino et his luculentissimis est liquidata confiniis ab aquilone et oriente amnis illa protendens quæ est saloweorpe et de ea in headleage et sic in reliquos dudum ascriptos territoriorium terminos . et iterum in occidente . . . . . terra est in weogorena leage xxx manentes ita circumquaque terminat . . . . . rimis of Moseleage in Subbingwic et deinde in lawern exin certe in hagan quae post se trahitur in Temedam . liberam quoque terram istam conscripsi ab omnibus aliis sæcularibus rebus durisque servitutibus modicis et magnis . notis . ignotis preter tantum his tribus causis arcis et pontis constructione et expeditione atque a pascua regis et principis vel subditorum eorum . Similiter hanc quoque xxv manentium in alia loca qui dicitur aet ceadresleage cum eadem libertatis privilegio campis sylvis omnibus modis sic liberam conscripsi . Et si malus homo in aperta scelere tribus vicibus deprehensus sit ad vicum regalem reddatur . Propter hanc videlicet libertatem istam episcopus et ejus familia mihi tradiderunt xiiii manentes duobus in curtis in loco quæ appellatur aet Sture . Peracta est enim haec donatio anno dominice incarnationis dcccxvi indictione namque nona regni vero nostri a Deo concessi xx o . Augentem vero vel servantem hanc nostræ donationis libertatem omnipotens Deus dies suas et vita hic et in futuro augeat . corroborat et benedicat . minuentem utique vel frangentem hanc in magno seu in modico ejus distrite examen ejus nisi ante cum satisfactione emendaverit . + Coenwulf rex Merciorum . + Uulfri∂ archiepiscopus . + Herewine episcopus . + Ræ∂hun episcopus . + Deneberht episcopus . + Uulfheard episcopus . + Eadulf episcopus . + Aelf∂ry∂ regina . + Wigberht episcopus . + Ae∂elulf episcopus . + Tidfer∂ episcopus . + Sibba episcopus . + Beormo∂ episcopus . + Ae∂elno∂ episcopus . + . . . . . . ilheard abbas . + [Ean]mund abbas . + [Wiht]red abbas . + [Tilberh]t abbas . + Peot presbyter . + Eadberht dux . + Wigheard dux . + Wulfred dux . + Eadfer∂ dux . + Wulfred dux . + Alhheard dux + Heardberht dux . + Beorno∂ dux . + Dynne dux . + Mucel dux . + Sigred dux .