S 84

A.D. 718 (? for 727). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Bægia, servant of God; grant of 6 hides (cassati) at Daylesford, Gloucs., for the founding of a minster. Latin with bounds in Latin and English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 31v-32r (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 68-9; K, 69; B, 139; Earle, p. 20; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 27

Comments:

Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, genuine; Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 70-2, on bounds; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 102-4, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 212, 217, ii. 207, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 13, authentic, indiction is correct for 727; Finberg 1972, p. 389, on a boundary mark; Cox 1976, pp. 20, 43, on place-names; Scharer 1982, pp. 164-6, not genuine in present form, contamination from S 194; Fleming 1985, p. 252; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 119, 151-2, on Bægia's minster; Whybra 1990, p. 38; Dumville 1992, pp. 41-2 n. 58, on estate history; Bassett 1996, p. 166.

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    • [D]æglesford. + Ego Æˇelbald divina dispensante gratia Mercensium rex terram sex cassatorum . juxta fluvium cui nomen est Bladæn prope vadum cui vocabulum est Dæglesford pro redemptione animæ meæ servo Dei quem vocant Bægia in possessionem juris ecclesiastici libertatisque tradidi ita ut in ea monasterium construeretur et servorum Dei habitaculum fieret ea tamen conditione in omnibus rebus donabo illi noti et ignotis regis sive principis libera permaneat in sempiternum . Si quis autem hanc donationem meam violare temptaverit sciat se in tremendo extremi judicii Dei examine rationem Deo redditurum . + Ego Æˇelbaldus rex propriam meam donationem consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Uuilfri∂us episcopus consensi . Ego Eadberht consensi . Ego Æ∂elric consensi . + Ego Cynric consensi . Ego Ælfred consensi . Ego Sigebed consensi . Ego Osred consensi . Hec sunt confinia huius ante nominati agelluli . hoc est primum of bladene on bæganwellan . inde in montem susibr? . urbs antiqua et postea bi ˇære aldan cestelbyrig on nunnena beorgas . ac deinde on fearhom et sic of fearhom neo∂eweardum . iterum on bleadene . Acta est autem hec donatio. anno incarnationis Christi . dcc.xviii . indictione . x .