S 468

A.D. 940. King Edmund to Garulf, minister; grant of 9 hides (mansae) at Swallowcliffe, Wilts. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Wilton

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 71r-72v (s. xiii)

Printed:

Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 38-9; K, 387 and vol. iii. 415-16; B, 756

Comments:

Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 81; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 259-61; Drögereit 1935, pp. 372-7, authentic; Darlington 1955, p. 91; Finberg, ECW, no. 253, authentic; Hart 1970a, p. 22, on rubric; Keynes 1980, pp. 24 n. 33, 44 n. 81, on rubric; on formulation

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    • ˝is his Swealewan clifes boc ˇe Eadmund cyng . gebocade . Garulfe his ˇegne on eche yrfe . Regnante inperpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Omnia de summo celi apice visibilia et invisibilia ordinabiliter gubernante . presentisque vite semper curriculo cotidie decrescente . ac nobis mortalibus temporalia gadza necnon et lucra possessionum inaniter fruentibus facescunt . ac defluunt . Quapropter ego Eadmundus divina michi adridente gratia rex Anglorum aliquam partem terre juris mei perpetuali donatione libenter concedo . cuidam meo ministro vicitato . Garulfo . ix . mansas in illo loco cui ruricoli appellativo usa ludibundisque vocabulis nomen indiderunt . 'rupis irundinis' . id est . Swealewanclif . Quatenus ille bene perfruatur ac perpetualiter possidiat quamdiu istius caducis seculi vitam tenere presumet . Et post se cuicumque volue[rit] ceu corroboravimus perhenniter heredi derelinquat ceu supra diximus in eternam hereditatem . Sit autem predictum [rus] liber ab omni mundiali obstaculo cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus . Campis . pascuis . pratis . silvis . Excepto istis tribus expeditione pontis arcisve constructione . Si quis autem quod non optamus hanc nostram diffinitionem elationis habitu incedens . infringere temptaverit perpessus sit gelidis glaciarum flatibus et pennino exercitu malignorum spirituum . nisi prius inriguis penitentie gemitibus et pura emendatione emendaverit . Istis terminibus predicta terra circumgyrata esse videtur . ˝is synt ˇa land ge mæro to swealewanclife . Ærest on ˇane hwitan weg ˇonon on ˇa readan hane ; of ˇære hane on ˇone herpaˇ to posses hlæwe of ˇæm hlæwe to lytlan crundelle . of ˇæm crundele on ˇa lytla hwitan geryˇra beneaˇan yfre on ˇane ˇorn . ˇonne of ˇam ˇorne to ˇam herepaˇe on hoddes stocc to uncer wulfrices eald ge mære . ˇone 7lang chealfa dune to ˇam holan paˇe . of ˇam holan paˇe on wida ford 7lang broces oˇ myˇford of ˇam forde on wærmundes treow of ˇam treowe and lang weges oˇ wilburge mere . 7 twegen æcras mealcing mæde . Acta est hec prefata donatio . Anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . dcccc xl . Indictione . xiii . Ego Eadmundus rex Anglorum prefatam donationem cum sigillo sancte crucis confirmavi . Ego Eadred ejusdem regis frater consignavi . Ego Ælfeah Wintoniensis ecclesie episcopus triumphalem tropheum agye crucis inpressi . Ego Odo episcopus consensi . (Ends abruptly at end of f. 72b.)