S 524

A.D. 947. King Eadred to Eadric, his faithful comes; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Ashdown Park in Ashbury, Berks. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 209r-v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 245r-v (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 108

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 843, ex MS 2; Warner 1826, Appendix, pp. lii-iii, ex Mon. Angl; K, 415 and vol. vi. 232-3, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 51-2 (no. 103); B, 828, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 89; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 686-7 (no. 1272), ex MS 1; PN Berks., iii. 694, bounds only

Comments:

Drögereit 1935, pp. 377-9; Forsberg 1950, pp. 158-9, on bounds; PN Berks., ii. 344-7, iii. 677, 694-6, not clear if bounds cover whole parish of Ashbury or only its western half; Gelling, ECTV, no. 52, authentic but bounds modernized; Forsberg 1984, p. 4, on bounds; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 34, 39, 47-9, on MS sources; on estate, the 14th-century cartularies note that Eadric gave the land to Dunstan

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    • Carta Edredi Regis facta Edrico comiti suo de Aysshedoune . Regnante imperpetuo domino nostro Jhesu Christo manifestum est cunctis quod omnia celestia et terestria providencia Dei gubernantur que sollicitudo mortalis vite totis nisibus in carorum amicorumque amissione conqueritur ac defletur ideo certis adstipulacionibus mellita oracula diem clamacionis nos frequentantivis ortacionibus suadet ut cum his fugitivis et sine dubio transitoriis possessiunculis iugiter mansura Regna Dei suffragio adipiscenda sunt. Quamobrem ego Edredus Rex Anglorum ceterarumque gencium in circuitu persistencium gubernator et rector cuidam meo fideli Comiti vecitato nomine . Edrigo ob illius amabili obsequium eisque placabili fidelitate . viginti . mansas ei libenter largiendo concedens perdonabo illic ubi vulgus prisca relacione vocitat . at Aysshedoune . quatenus ille bene perfruatur ac perpetualiter possideat dum huius labentis evi cursum transeat illesus atque vitalis spiritus in corruptibile carne inereat et post se cuicumque voluerit perhenniter heredi derelinquat sicuti prediximus Sit hoc predictum rus liber ab omni mundiali obstaculo cum omnibus que ad ipsum locum pertinere dinoscuntur tam in magnis quam in modicis rebus Campis . Pascuis . Pratis . silvis . excepto istis tribus expedicione pontis arcisve coedificacione . Si que denique michi non optanti hanc libertatis cartam livore depressi violari satagerint agminibus tetri caliginis lapsi vocem audiant examinacionis diem arbitris sibi dicentis 'Discedite a me maledicti in ignem eternum'1 ubi cum demonibus ferreis sartaginibus crudeli torqueantur in pena si non ante mortem digna hoc emandaverint penitencia . Istis terminibus predicta terra circumgirata videtur . Erest of buckansticke west on buckanmere to ˇan ruancroundele ˇaron middeward burnestowe to ˇan stone . ˇanen west ende lang smaleweies on ˇare croundel bi este ˇa ertheburgh and so north on rigt to hordenestone ˇanen to elden berwe and soa endelang diches north to ˇan white stone ˇanen to ˇan Stanberwe yate ˇanen to ˇe litel berwe ˇanen ende langmeres to middel dich ˇanen north to rigt weie to ˇan ston on mid rigt weies and soa to loppancombe ouerward ˇar forth end lang furch on rigte to merewelle endlang stremes to folanruwers ouer ˇan ridde to ˇan stone whit oute ˇar irwelonde ˇar forth to ˇan beche ˇanen of piwannere on lippanstibbe ˇar on kingesdich end land dich to melanbroke of milanbrok on lortanbroke ˇanen on lortanberwe so vp endlang furtg to mereberwe ˇanen out to ˇan widen yate of ˇan gate to ˇan horeston ford to rammesburi yate of rammesburi so forth ende lang weies to buckansticke . Acta est hec prefata donacio anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . D . C . C . C . C . quadragesimo septimo . + Ego Eddredus rex Anglorum prefatam donacionem sub sigillo sancte crucis indeclinabiliter consensi atque roboravi . + Ego Oda Dorobornensis ecclesie archiepiscopus ejusdem regis donacionem et benevolenciam cum sigillo sancte crucis conclusi cum multis aliis . Postea prefatus Edricus memoratum manerium quod nunc vocatur Aysshebury cum omnibus pertinenciis suis adeo plene et libere sicut prefatus rex illud sibi donaverat dedit sancto Dunstano tunc abbati Glastonie ejusdemque loci conventui ac monasterio Glastonie imperpetuum possidendum offerens cartam presentem cum jure manerii .