S 823

A.D. 963 x 975. King Edgar to the church of Winchester; restoration of 60 hides (mansae) at Farnham, Surrey, and 10 hides (cassati) at Bentley, near Alton, Hants. Latin

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 11v-12r (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 605; B, 1154; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 38

Printed and Translated:

Rumble 2002, no. V (ix)

Comments:

Finberg, ECW, no. 115, authentic, cf.pp. 237-41, probably drafted at Winchester with Edgar's knowledge, but not formally promulgated; John 1965; John 1966, p. 58, on royal style; Hart 1970a, p. 25 (no. 19), authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 333, authentic; Dumville 1992, p. 43 n. 62, treats as spurious; Rumble 2002, p. 17, no. V (ix), 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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    • Freols Boc to Fearnham . Gratia Dei cunctis spiritali preditis sapientia qui deificæ contemplationis beatitudinem puræ mentis intuitu lacrimarum valle degentes crebro anhelantes suspirio cernere desiderant . manifestissimis scripturarum liquido declaratur indiciis . quod uniusquisque fidelium ad supernam celorum tendens patriam potis est imis celestia . caducis eterna lucrando insegniter promereri . ac mundi huius principem qui vitiorum sectatoribus infestissime dominatur in huius vitæ stadio robustissime expugnare . Quapropter ego Eadgar Angligenarum ceterarumque gentium hinc inde persistentium rex a domino constitutus . non immemor ob hoc mihi transitoria ut his æterna Christi opitulante gratia lucrarer fore concessa ; quoddam Rus . LXX . mansis spaciose dilatatum a predecessoribus meis olim Wintoniensi æcclesiæ ob almæ trinitatis ejusque apostolorum Petri et Pauli reverentiam dedicatæ . æterna largiti sunt hereditate . hac hereditaria carta novis litteris ad prefatam recuperans reduco libertatem . Quod a gnosticis Fearnham noto nuncupatur vocabulo . LX . mansis consistens æt Beonetleh . X . determinatum cassatis . Nullus igitur hanc nostram libertatem quam Adelwoldo presule deposcente nuper ut antiquitus fuerat devotus edidi infringere vel minuere presumat . Sit autem omni terrenæ servitutis solutum . excepta expeditione pontis arcisve recuperatione . Si quis hanc nostram violaverit libertatem ; anathema sit .