S 212

A.D. 866. Burgred, king of Mercia, to Wulferd; grant of 2 hides (manentes) at Seckley in Upper Arley, belonging to Wolverley, Worcs., in return for 5 hides on a single-lifetime lease, 400 silver sicli and various other items. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 8

Printed:

Smith, Bede, p. 770, ex MS; K, 292 and vol. iii. 396-7, ex Smith; B, 513, ex Smith; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 32

Translated:

Bridgeman 1916, pp. 77-8 (no. 3)

Comments:

Wanley, Catalogus, p. 301, no. 8, crosses in MS had different forms; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 78-9; Grundy, Worcs., II, pp. 104-8, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 261, authentic; Davies 1972, pp. 471, 476, on formulas; Hooke 1989a, p. 118, on woodland; Hooke 1990, pp. 120-5, on bounds; Pratt, Alfred, p. 42 n. 83

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    • + Regnante in perpetuum Deo et domino nostro Jesu Christo anno dominicæ incarnationis dccc . lxvi . indictione vero decima . Ego Burgred rex Merciorum cum consensu 7 licentia . seniorum meorum libenti animo . concedens donabo aliquam part