S 252

A.D. 688 x 690. Ine, king of Wessex, to Hean, patricius, and to Ceolswith; grant of 45 hides (cassati) at Bradfield, Bestlesford (near Basildon) and Streatley, all in Berks., for the construction of a monastery. Latin

Archive:

Abingdon

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 105v (s. xii 2)

Printed:

K, 31; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 12-13; B, 74; Stenton 1913, p. 12; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 1

Comments:

Stenton 1913, p. 12, possible genuine fragment with touched-up witness-list; Stenton 1918, p. 438 n. 25, probably founded on ancient material (= Stenton 1970, p. 52 n. 6); Stenton 1971, p. 73, authentic; PN Berks., i. 200, ii. 512-13, 531; Cox 1976, pp. 17, 27, on place-names; Gelling, ECTV, no. 11, authentic basis, witness-list interpolated; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 168-70, basically authentic, a few anachronistic details may have been interpolated; Thacker 1988, p. 44, represents an authentic tradition, cf. S 239; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 1, fabrication using early material

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    • Ego Ini rex Westsaxonum pro anime mee remedio reddidi terram .xlv. cassatorum Hean patricio et Ceolswiðe ad monasterium construendum. Que terra appellatur in Bradanfelda et Bestlesfelda et alia que nominatur Stretlea, cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus. Cui donationi testes affuerant Ebba, Æthilbald et Eadfrith filius Iddi, et cum iussione episcoporum Cedde, Germani, Winfridi. Quam terram primus dederat Eadfrith filius Iddi super altare in ecclesia que ibi constructa est pro anima eius. Ego Theodorus seruus Dei archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi.
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    • Rubric: Item alia carta Ini regis. Ego Ini rex Westsaxonum pro anime mee remedio reddidi terram .xlv. cassatorum Hean patricio et Ceolswi∂e ad monasterium construendum. Que terra appellatur in Bradanfelda et Bestlesfelda et alia que nominatur Stretlea, cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus. Cui donationi testes affuerant Ebba, Æthilbald et Eadfrith filius Iddi, et cum iussione episcoporum Cedde, Germani, Winfridi. Quam terram primus dederat Eadfrith filius Iddi super altare in ecclesia que ibi constructa est pro anima eius. Ego Theodorus seruus Dei archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi.