S 220

A.D. 888 (Droitwich, Worcs.). Æthelred, procurator of Mercia, to Wulfgar, minister; grant of 15 hides (manentes) at Walden, Herts. Latin

Archive:

St Albans

MSS:

1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), f. 162v (s. xvii)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 151r-v (s. xiii)

Printed:

K, 1068, ex MS 2; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 11-12, ex MS 2; B, 557, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 60, ex MS 2

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, pp. 699 n. 44, 703, suspicious; Stenton 1971, p. 260 n. 2, not completely reliable; Whitelock 1975, p. 16, not free from suspicion but some genuine basis; Gelling, ECTV, no. 167, authentic basis, presumably St Paul's Walden; Hooke 1981a, pp. 129, 149; Pelteret 1986, p. 483, in connection with estate history; Dumville 1992, pp. 3 n. 15, 18, authentic; Keynes 1993, pp. 260, 266, on MS 1; Blair 1994, p. 97, on background; Keynes 1994c, p. 21 n. 96; Keynes 1998, pp. 28, 34

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    • In nomine domini 7 salvatoris nostri Jhesu Christi . Anno autem incarnacionis ejus . dccc . lxxxviii . indiccione vero vi . ego Æˇelredus gratia Dei disponente procurator in domino regni Merciorum cogitans Deo 7 hominibus satis facere ; 7 amicos infraudelentos lucrare ; iccirco trado atque concedo aliquam partem terre ministro meo fideli Wulfgaro . cum consensu episcoporum meorum . ducum . 7 omnium optimatum . in publico conventu ad Saltwic congregato . Est autem telluris quasi . xv . manensium in loco qui dicitur Waledene . pro ejus humili obediencia . ut habeat quam diu vivat . 7 post se cuicumque voluerit in hereditatem derelinquat possidendam . cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus . pratis . pascuis . aquis aquarumque decursibus . liberam hanc terram describimus ab omnibus causis . nisi singulare precium contra aliud ponat et modum ecclesie . Siquis autem hanc donacionem augere voluerit . augeat sibi rex celestis sortem cum suis electis in regno celorum . Qui vero quod absit minuere se temptaverit . sciat se anathematizatum a consorcio omnium sanctorum nisi Deo 7 hominibus digne in hoc sæculo emendaverit . Ego Æˇelredus hanc meam donacionem cum signo sancte crucis corroboravi . His testibus infra caraxatis . consencientibus . + Ego Æˇelflæd consensi . + Ego Wulredus episcopus . + Ego Alchardus episcopus . + Ego Werferˇus episcopus . + Ego Cynemundus electus . + Ego Eadwaldus dux . Ego Æˇulfus + dux . Ego Æˇelferdus + dux . Ego Alchelmus + dux . Ego Earˇulfus + . Ego Beornoˇus + . Ego Ælwardus + . Ego Eadnoˇus . Ego Ælfredus . + Ego Æˇelgarus . Ego Alchstanus . Ego Wiferdus . Ego Ælfredus . Ego Wulricus . + Ego Wulfredus . + Ego Æˇulfus . + Ego Buga . + Ego Ufa. + Ego Beorhthelmus.