S 662a

A.D. 955 x 959. King Eadwig to Æthelgeard, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Bathingbourne in Godshill, Isle of Wight. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Evesham

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 20r (s. xii/xiii; end erased)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 29 (S.C. 3866), p. 41 (s. xvii; incomplete)

Printed:

K, 475 and vol. iii, p. 453; B, 1025; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 115

Comments:

Grundy, Hants., III, pp. 103-4, on bounds; Kökeritz 1940, pp. 144-5, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, pp. 209-10, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 86, authentic; Hart 1970a, pp. 15-17, on beneficiary and his estates, assigns to 958 on basis of formulation; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, redates 955 x 957; Keynes 1996, pp. 86-7, on beneficiary

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    • Px In nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi . Omnium visibilium et invisibilium rerum creatore inperpetuum regnante . et a summo celi fastigio omnia regnorum jura disponente . cunctis ea que sunt vera cernentibus manifestum est quod presentis vite prosperitas mundi strepitu defitiendo corrumpitur . Nunc igitur de rebus temporalibus si bene dispensentur eterna justitia comparatur . Eo tenore ego Eadwig rex Anglorum multarumque gentium circumquaque persistentium gubernator et rector cuidam meo fideli ministro vocitato nomine Æˇelgeardo concedo in Uecta insula . v . mansas illo in loco ubi jam dudum ruricole illius terre nomen indiderunt æt Beaddingaburnan . quatinus habeat ac possideat in vita sua . et post se cui voluerit tribuat in eternam hereditatem . Sit autem predicta donatio ab omni mundiali obstaculo libera cum omnibus ad se rite pertinentibus . campis pascuis pratis silvis . exceptis tribus . expeditione pontis arcisve coedificatione . Si quis autem tetri demonis stimulatione instinctus . hoc nostrum decretum infringere voluerit ; sit ipse sub Stigii fluminis unda preceps in ima Tartara trusus . nisi hic prius ad satisfactionem venire maluerit . Istis terminis ambitur [predicta tellus] 1 . ˘is synd ˇa gemære to beaddingaburnan . Ærest of beaddingaburnan east 7lang dic on ˇone stan . ˇonon su∂ 7lang ˇes grenan weges on ˇone o∂erne stan . of ˇam stane on ˇone sandihtan hærepoˇ . ˇonon on risc mere . of risc mere on stan beorg . ˇon . on holan broc . of holan broce on beaddingaburnan . siˇˇan nor∂ 7lang beaddingaburnan on ˇa east langan dic .