S 246

A.D. 704 (Glastonbury). Ine, king, to the church of SS Mary and Patrick, Glastonbury; grant of freedom from secular burdens. Latin

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 58v (s. xiv med.)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, R.5.33 (724), ff. 1-19v, f. 8r-v (s. xiii)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. V, f. 56r-v (s. xv)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 67r (s. xiv)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 12-13, ex MS 4; Hearne, John of Glastonbury, i. 92-3, ex MS 3*; Hearne, Adam of Domerham, i. 51-2, ex MS 2; Warner 1826, Appendix, p. lii (o. 2), ex Mon. Angl; K, 51, ex MSS 3*, 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 25 (no. 6); B, 109, ex K and MSS 2*, 3*; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 141-2 (no. 200), ex MS 1

Printed and Translated:

Scott 1981, pp. 92-5, in part; Carley, Glast. Chron., pp. 92-3, ex MS 3

Comments:

Warner 1826, Introduction pp. cii-civ; HS, p. 307, spurious; Davidson 1884, pp. 8-9, spurious; Liebermann 1913, p. 45, spurious; Watkin 1956, pp. 211-12 n. 34, may preserve traces of some genuine document; Finberg, ECW, no. 369, spurious, local adaptation of S 245; Finberg 1969, p. 73, spurious; Cox 1976, p. 33, on place-name; Scott 1981, p. 198 n. 86; Edwards 1988, p. 26, fabrication based on a copy of S 245; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 2-3; Abrams 1996, p. 28, on MS sources

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    • In nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi ! Ego Ini rex , decreto et consilio præsulis nostri Aldhelmi simulque cunctorum Dei sacerdotum suggestione , et monachorum petitione qui in parochia Uuest-Saxonum conversantur , hanc libertatem monachis , qui in æcclesia beatæ Dei genetricis Mariæ , et beati Patricii , omnipotenti Deo , sub abbate Hemgislo , famulantur , in pristina urbe quæ dicitur Glastingaea , impendo , et hanc privilegii dignitatem super altare pono ; ut sine impedimento sæcularium rerum , et absque tributo fiscalium negociorum , liberis mentibus , soli Deo serviant ; et monasticam disciplinam , Christo suffragium largiente , regulariter exerceant ; et pro statu et prosperitate regni nostri et indulgentia commissorum criminum , ante conspectum divinæ majestatis preces fundere dignentur : et orationum officia frequentantes in æcclesiis pro nostra fragilitate interpellare nitantur . Si quis vero contra huius decreti singrapham venire temptaverit , sciat se coram Christo , novemque angelorum ordinibus , in tremendo examine rationem redditurum . Pro ampliori firmitatis testamento . principes et senatores , judices et patricios subscribere fecimus ; actum publice , et confirmatum in lignea basilica , anno ab incarnatione domini septingentesimo quarto . + Ego Aldhelmus subscripsi .