S 819

A.D. 963 x 975. King Edgar to the church of Winchester; restoration of 10 hides (mansae) at Clearan, Hants., previously granted by King Æthelwulf as part of his 'decimation' Latin

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 11r (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 602; B, 1151; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 35

Printed and Translated:

Rumble 2002, no. V (vi)

Comments:

Finberg, ECW, no. 112, authentic, the land is no doubt Highclere, cf. pp. 237-41, probably drafted at Winchester with Edgar's knowledge, but not formally promulgated; John 1965; Hart 1970a, p. 25 (no. 16), authentic; Keynes 1994b, p. 1122 n. 1, spurious; Rumble 2002, p. 17, no. V (vi), edits SS 814-19, 821-7 as a single document; suggests that a little late tenth or early eleventh-century cartulary may lie behind it, perhaps compiled under influence of Æthelwold

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    • Dominus omnipotens qui vivit in eternum creans omnia simul divino et co æterno verbo sex diebus formulas rerum distinxit singularum . Ex creatura igitur creatorem agnoscens mirabilem . presentia ad futurorum comparationem bonorum . velut quisquiliarum peripsema . vel fetidam melancoliæ nausiam apporiando reprobans . æternæ beatitudinis emolumenta medullitus lucrari desiderans . ego Eadgar divina largiente gratia totius Brittannie rex ob animæ meæ salutem regnique nostri ac filiorum successorumque omnium prosperitatem ; Quoddam rus . X . videlicet mansarum quantitate taxatum . usitato æt Clearan . nuncupatum vocabulo . olim ab Aˇulfo rege tocius sui regiminis rura decimante ad refocillationem pontificum predictæ Wintoniensi æcclesiæ eterna largitum est dapsilitate . modernoque tempore a quibusdam perfidis injuste abstractum raptoribus . reverende trinitati Petroque apostolorum principi ejusque co apostolo Paulo eterna solutum libertate humiliter restituo . Hoc in Christi nomine precipio ut nemo successorum meorum violare audacter presumat quod ego meorum auctoritate procerum domino recuperando restitui . Si quis autem philargiria seductus aliqua nova et adulterina cartula hanc nostram largifluam a domino abstrahere voluerit munificentiam . anathema sit et inferni incendiis assiduo punitus . jugi miseria cruciatus intereat . Vetus namque et hæc nova quam edidi domino instigante cartula jugi profectu vigeat . et omnes qui ei juvamen impenderint peccaminum suorum veniam consequendo eternæ vitæ beatitudinem Christo largiente obtineant . Sit autem hoc rus Adˇelwoldo presule obtinente eadem libertate gloriosum . qua priscis fuerat temporibus insignitum . Qui vero ejusdem libertatis gloriam violare iniquæ presumpserit . a Christo reprobatus inferni miseria puniatur nisi satisfaciendo se humiliatum correxerit .