S 283

A.D. 924 for ? 824 (Acleah). Egbert, king of Wessex, to Wulfheard, præfectus; grant of 22 hides (manentes) on the river Meon, Hants. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 39v-40r (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 1031; B, 377; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 36

Comments:

Grundy, Hants., III, pp. 209-17, identifies the estate as in East Meon and Froxfield; Finberg, ECW, no. 10, authentic; Hart 1970a, p. 28 (no. 67); O'Donovan 1973, p. 103, witness-list not above suspicion; Edwards 1988, pp. 146-50, 163, substantially authentic, bounds not contemporary; Keynes 1994b, pp. 1111-12, esp. p. 1111 n. 2, spurious, some details from a charter of mid 820s, proem from a 10th-century model; Coates 1999, p. 22, on boundary point

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    • ˘is is ˇara . xxii . hyda boc æt Meone ˇæ Egbyrht cing gebocode Wlfwarde his reve on ece yrfæ . Regnante domino nostro Jhesu Christo mundi huius labentibus properanter temporibus regnat . functi cum regibus velocissimo transeuntibus cursu licet stare firmiter a priori statu cito labi nullo sapiente ignotum est . et gaudia hic fallentis vitæ desiderantur . Qua propter ego Ecgberhtus occidentalium Saxonum rex largiflua Dei et dapsili manu aliquam terræ partem pro remedio animæ meæ . atque expiatione priscorum scelerum meorum Wlfheado præfecto meo satis benigno animo meis episcopis seu consiliariis consentientibus largitus sum quo est juxta 'amnem' ubi incole appellant 'Meone' . mea est autem terra illa ex utraque parte fluminis juxta estimationem incolarum in modum .xxii. manentium cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus . piscariis campis . pratis . et silvis . liberamque habeat dicionem habendi . donandi . vendendi . communicendi vel relinquendi . cuicumque voluerit heredi . Est autem age'r' ille his terminis circumdata . On uestan ˇan londe æt risc mere eastan and lang ∂es weges on ∂one ge mer hagan and lang hagan on ∂one elebeam . ∂anon and lang ˇæs hagan betuen falod leah 7 siladæne . swa an lang hagan ˇi∂ on ceorles beame . ∂onne on west eal be strete . and lang sleades ˇi∂ luhhes gaetes . ∂anon on ˇone boc hagan ˇi∂ ∂ere boc stigele . ∂onne and lang hagan wi∂ wi∂ig meres ∂ueres ober ∂one mere swa ford and lang hagan wi∂ sceadeles sceates . fore weardes . ˇanan east up suae ∂et ealden faestan sca∂e and lang ∂es faestenes on readan cumb . ub an weardne . ˇæt hit stent on ˇam sieran boc hagan . And lang ∂es sieran hagan on rindgesella ˇeores ofer done mere . ∂anon on readen bexean . ˇonne and lang hagan on ˇan bæces weaste heafod . on o∂eres east heafod . ˇanon wi∂ eastan hri∂res heafod . ˇanon on timber hricges snad fore weardne ˇær he ut cyme∂ . ˇonne on synd hilde mere . ˇonne an on re eadburge geat . ˇonne ˇweores ofer beor done ut on ˇa rode . ˇæt up and lang nor∂ be eastan hyblea on ∂one ealdan her pa∂ . ∂reores ofer Meone on granan treou . and lang ˇæs hlinces on ˇara ˇreore acra ende . up on uecær hege sio∂∂an hege rauue on gaen da furh up wi∂ reofnes beorges . ˇanon on ˇona cumb al swa seo forg sca∂eˇ on ˇat cymed in sceolles uuille . and lang seolesburnan eft in Meone . on ge rihta . up on uuorres sol inne on restes lea ˇanon and lang bæces ut to bromdene . ˇreores ofer bromdene on ∂one here pa∂ on crutte bracca on weodu on ˇone healf . ˇonne on ˇone hagan up to tycc ham stede ˇonan on rihc mere eastan weardne. Scripta est enim hæc scedula in loco celebri ubi dicitur ac leah . Anno dominicæ incarnationis . dcccc . xxiiii . indictione . ii . Anno Ecgberti regis . xxiii . sub testimonio optimatum suorum ac principum gentis Saxoniæ nec non episcoporum quorum nomina subter ad nexa notantur . Ego Ecgbertus divina ordinante gratia occidentalium rex hanc meam donationem signo dominico in solium domino roborando confirmo . Ego Wig∂egnus episcopus civitate Wentanæ consentiendo confirmandoque subscribo . Ego Alfstanus electus in episcopatum Scireburnensis æcclesiæ consensi et subscripsi . Signum manus Byrhtelm præfecti . Signum manus Burhheardi præfecti . Signum manus Wlfheardi præfecti . Signum manus Hunes præfecti . Signum manus Hiotomannes præfecti .