S 636

A.D. 956 (ii). King Eadwig to Wulfric, his princeps; grant of 7 hides (cassati) at Millbrook, with a haga in Southampton, Hants. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 12 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 21)
2. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 63v-64r (s. xii med.)
3. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 78r-v (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 450, ex MS 1; B, 926, ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 194-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 103

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Grundy, Hants., III, pp. 242-4, on bounds; Barker 1949, p. 77, contemporary; Burgess 1964; Finberg, ECW, no. 78, original; Chaplais 1965, pp. 57 n. 81, 59-60, original, Winchester scribe (= 1973, pp. 38 n. 81, 41-2); Hart 1970a, pp. 31 (no. 110), 33 (no. 136), original; Keynes 1980, pp. 20-1, 25, 54-5, 65, 67, 68 n. 131, 'Group Two'; discusses scribe, chrismon; Chaplais 1985, p. 49, restates Winchester attribution of scribe; Ker, Catalogue, p. lix, scribe of MS 1 probably wrote 951 annal in Parker Chronicle (Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 173); Dumville 1992, pp. 63-4 and n. 63, queries attribution of scribe and script to Winchester, S 636 a royal-chancery product; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script; Hough 1996, on element in bounds; Wormald, English Law, p. 167, on script; Thompson 2006, pp. 11 et passim, on script

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    • Endorsements: (1) in a contemporary hand: + ˇis is ˇara . VII . hida boc æt Melebroce ˇe Eadwig cing gebocode Wulfrice his ˇegne on ece yrfe . (2) in a hand of late s. xv: VII hyda in Mylbrooke . saxon . Px Anno heroicæ incarnationis DCCCCLVI . Indictione . XIIII . Eadwig numine cælesti gentis Geuuisorum orientaliumque nec non occidentalium simul etiam aquilonalium Saxonum archons cuidam meorum principum quem nonnulli vocitant noto vocamine . Wvlfric . VII . cassatos perpetualiter trado . illic ubi vulgariter dicitur . æt Melebroce . quandiu hic corpus animatum habere videbitur nostri doni privilegium sibi vendicet et postero denique suo quemcumque elegerit pereniter impertiat cum campis . pascuis . pratis . silvis . Hæc tellus a cuncto sit immunis servitu nisi pontis . et arcis . ac expeditionis juvamine . Si quis autem infringere temptaverit quod absit . sciat se rationem redditurum coram Deo et angelis ejus . nisi prius hic digna satisfactione emendare satagerit . Istis terminis ambitur prædicta tellus . ˇis synt ˇa land gemæro to melebroce . ærest of hreodbrycge 7lang st'r'æte on fearninga broce 7lang mearce on melebroces ford east 7lang mearce on ˇunres lea norˇeweardne ˇonon 7lang weges on cinges dic ˇonon 7lang mearce on holan weg of ˇam wege on ˇa ea oˇ midne stream 7lang streames on hreodbrycge . 7 se haga an ham tune ˇe ˇærto gebyret . + Ego Eadwig rex Anglorum indeclinabiliter concessi . + Ego Eadgar ejusdem regis frater consensi . + Ego Oda archiepiscopus cum signo sanctæ crucis + roboravi . + Ego Ælfsinus presul sigillum agiæ crucis + impressi . + Ego Oscytel episcopus consignavi . + Ego Osulf episcopus adquievi . + Ego Wulfsige episcopus subscripsi . + Ego Byrhthelm episcopus conclusi . + Æˇelstan dux . + Eadmund dux . + Byrhtferˇ dux . + Ælfhere dux . + Ælfsige minister . + Wulfric minister . + Æˇelgeard minister . + Ælfheah minister . + Ælfgar minister . + Byrhtferˇ minister . + Ælfred minister .