S 572

A.D. 956 for 954 x 955. King Eadred to Ely Abbey; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at Stapleford, Cambs., to be in the charge of Wulfstan, the king's sequipedus; with an additional grant of 3 hides at Bardfield in Stapleford and a mill and pasture at Derneforde (Dernford Farm, Cambs.). Latin

Archive:

Ely

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity College, O.2.1 (1105), ff. 52v-53r (s. xii 2)
2. Cambridge, University Library, E.D.C. 1, ff. 50v-51r (s. xii/xiii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 647 (S.C. 1595), f. 22r (s. xii)

Printed:

B, 1346; Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 102

Comments:

Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 416, possibly an adaptation of a genuine charter of Eadred in favour of Wulfstan (and cf. foreword by Whitelock p. xii); Hart, ECEE, no. 51, authentic, regnal year points to 954 x 955; Whitelock 1969, pp. 112-13, original beneficiary probably Wulfstan; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Dumville 1979, p. 8 n. 6; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, defends 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1985, pp. 159-60, on 'alliterative' charters; Chaplais 1987, pp. 275-6, on title of Eadgifu; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on charter-type

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    • Privilegium Æthredi regis super manerium de Stapelforda . Cuncta quæ cernuntur inter cælum et terram practice temporalia sunt , et quæ non videntur et cælestibus theorice catholica fide corde tenus credenda sunt . Quapropter antiqui dudum decreverunt cum terrenis æternalia et caducis cælestia collucrari . Ideo que illuc anhelando toto mentis conamine dat quæ sua sunt nutu Dei larga manu Ædredus rex Angulsexena et Norhumbre imperator paganorumque gubernator et Britonum propugnator , gratanter ut dictum est , Deo teste : 'Gratis accepistis , gratis date' 1 . concedens villam quæ Stapelforda nominatur Deo et sancto Petro apostolo necnon et sancte Ætheldrethæ virgini et sanctæ ejus prosapiæ in Eliensi ecclesia quiescenti ad usus Deo inibi famulantium inspirante Paraclito , et cum illo Ædgiva Efax genetrix regum . perhenniter perfruendam ; Hoc prævalet alacriter Wulstanus præfati regis sequipedus patulo ore propalare de usurpatione quindecim cassatorum ad Stapelfordam . Hanc denique tellurem magnis rebus ac modicis ad eam rite pertinentibus perpetualiter Ædredus inclitus rex triumphali vexillo fidei anno dominicæ incarnationis nongentesimo quinquagesimo sexto , et nono annorum laterculo quo idem imperator sceptra diadematum sullimavit ; in cujus tempore de sacerdotibus in Ely existentibus mirabilia leguntur contigisse . Adjecit idem rex huic ruri quandam partem nemoris , trium videlicet hydarum , apud Berdefelde atque unum molendinum in Derneforde cum pascuis non modicis . Huius quidem donationis testes fuerunt Domnus Odo archiepiscopus , Ædwius clito et frater ejus sanctæ memoriæ Ædgarus , qui uterque sceptrum regni regere meruerunt , et alii quorum nomina longum est exarrare .