S 504

A.D. 944. King Edmund to Wulfric, minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Nettleton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 202v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 234r-v (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 44 (see Abrams 1996, p. 32)

Printed:

K, 398 and vol. vi. 232, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 59 (no. 128), ex MS 2; B, 800, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 645 (no. 1198), ex MS 1

Comments:

Fisher 1887, p. 3 and n. 1; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 295-6, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 264, authentic; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 32, 179-80, on MS sources; on estate

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    • Carta Edmundi Regis facta Wulfrico Ministro suo de Netelingtone . Regnante imperpetuo Domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Sacre autem scripture edita forma catholicorum patrum nos admonet ut memores simus quoniam quidem transeuntis mundi vicissitudo cotidie per incrementa temporum crescendo decrescit et ampliendo minuatur . crebrescentibusque repentinis variorum incursuum ruinis vicinus finis terminus esse cunctis in proximo cernitur . iccirco vanis ac transibilibus rebus mansura celistis patrie premia mercanda sunt . Quapropter ego Edmundus rex Anglorum ceterarumque gencium in circuitu persistencium gubernator et rector cuidam meo fideli ministro vocitato nomine Wolfrico ob illius amabile obsequium ejusque placabilem fidelitatem dignatus sum impartiri bis denas mansas quod Anglice dicitur . twenti hide . ubi turbarum collacione jamdudum nomen illatum hoc adesse profertur at Netelintone . hoc igitur tellus prefatum omnibus cum appendiciis silvis et campis paschuis atque pratis magnis vel minimis sit quoque liber libertate prefixa ab omni jugo servili cum universis que pertinent sibi tribus pretermissis non obmittendis expedicione pontis municionisque confectione deinceps namque sibi succedenti cui placuerit sibi relinquat heredi in eternam hereditatem . Nam quisquis seculorum in generacione Belial gnatus nostrum hoc volumen inmutare temptaverit inde reus [s]celere judicii die magna cum turma truces trudatur in flammas nisi hoc in seculo penitencie prius fletu detersus hinc se corrigere studuerit . Istis terminibus predicta terra circumgirata esse videtur . Ærest endlang ˇe fer to Alorbroke endlang Alorbrokes to Wodeford . of Wodeford to Streteford of Streteford to Meredich vp of Meredich out to bilham ˇat hit comet to langforlang suthward ˇanen to Hengrave of Hengrave to cefelandgrave ˇanen to abbanberghe to ˇan orputten to ˇe fer ist sone . Acta est hec prefata donacio anno ab incarnacione Domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DC . C . C . C . XIII . indictione secunda . + Ego Edmundus rex Anglorum prefatam donacionem cum sigillo sancte crucis subarravi . + Ego Oda Dorobornensis ecclesie archiepiscopus ejusdem regis donacionem cum sigillo sancte crucis confirmavi cum multis aliis .