S 743

A.D. 966. King Edgar to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 2 hides (mansiunculae) at (Podimore) Milton, Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 169v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 185r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 82 (see Abrams 1996, p. 33)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 839, ex MS 2; K, 525 and vol. vi. 242, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 91); B, 1188, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 133; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 476 (no. 863), ex MS 1

Comments:

Finberg, ECW, no. 493, authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, on formulation; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. p. 178; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 33, 38, 174-5, on MS sources, on estate history

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    • Carta Regis Edgari de Middeltone . Anno ab incarnacione domini nostri Jhesu Christi DCCCC . Sexagesimo sexto Ego Edgar divina albescente gracia rex et primicerius tocius Albionis ruris partem aliquantalam binis ab accolis estimata mansiunculis in loco qui dicitur Middeltone ad boriam paludestris flum[in]is qui dicitur Cari ad monasterium Glastingense imperpetuum jus libenter admodum largitus sum cum omnibus huic pertinentibus pratis paschuis silvis . obsecrans ut nullus superveniat hominum superbie inflatus rancore qui haunc nostram largifluam donacionem inmutare vel minuere audeat . Si quis autem minuere vel auferre quod domino largiti sumus obstinatus voluerit . deleatur nomen ejus de libro vite reusque anathema post obitum eternis baratri deputatus incendiis nisi cum digna satisfactione devotus emendaverit . Et hec pars telluris hiis limitibus circumgirari videtur . Erest of ˇare forˇan strete north on ˇan braden strete ˇanen on ˇe estlangedich ˇanen ˇan ristes ouer Care forde bi Middel hithe est on estlangedich ˇanen on ˇe northlangedich north bi more on ˇe greine wei : ˇanen on ˇe estlangedich ˇare on ˇe southlangedich to south more ˇanen on ˇe westlangedich endlang ˇere dich on leine meare of ˇan meore on winterburne ˇanen on Cari strem endlange stremes eft on ˇare for ˇan strete . Et huius doni constipulatores exstiterunt quorum inferius nomina caraxari videntur . Ego Edgar Rex subscripsi . + . Ego Dunstanus archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi . + . Cum multis aliis .