S 89

A.D. 736. Æthelbald, king of the Mercians and of the South Angli, to Cyneberht, comes; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Ismere by the river Stour and land at Brochyl in Morfe forest, Worcs., for the construction of a minster. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 3 (s. viii 1; BM Facs., i. 7; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 183; Lowe, Uncial, pl. 23; Making of England, p. 197 (no. 152); Campbell 1982, p. 96)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 129r (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), f. 1r-v (s. xvii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 121; Smith, Bede, p. 786; Hearne, Heming, p. 555, ex MS 2; K, 80; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 7); B, 154; Earle, pp. 29-30; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 33

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 67 (pp. 492-4)

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary; Birch 1876, pp. 84-6; Sweet, OET, p. 429 (no. 9); Stenton 1913, p. 19 n. 2, cited; Stenton 1918, pp. 439-42, MS 1 contemporary, discusses royal style (= Stenton 1970, pp. 53-6); Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 27-30, genuine and contemporary; Ker 1948, p. 65, on endorsement; John 1960, p. 97, on royal style; Lowe, Uncial, p. 21, MS 1 probably contemporary; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 183, MS 1 contemporaneous, very probably original; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xvii, opistograph, on script; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 26, 39, 43 n. 163, on script; Chaplais 1965, pp. 53-4, on script; on provenance (= 1973, pp. 34-5); John 1966, pp. 8, 86-7, 105, on royal style; Wright 1967, p. 56, on script; Wolfram, Intitulatio, p. 215 n. 10, original, discusses royal style; Chaplais 1968, p. 333, original, 7 subscriptions added later (= 1973, pp. 84-5); Englebert 1969, pp. 406, 410, on script; Pius 1969, compares letter-forms to pen-trials in Würzburg MS M.p.th.q.2; Stenton 1971, pp. 286, 305, cited; Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-xiv, trustworthy; Finberg, ECWM, no. 211, authentic, minster probably at Kidderminster; Harrison 1973, p. 65, first charter of undoubted authenticity to include an incarnation year; Harrison 1976, p. 118, on dating; Sawyer 1978, pp. 145-6; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 492-3; Ford 1980, on Brochyl; Scharer 1982, pp. 179-81, genuine and contemporary; Wormald 1982, pp. 95-7; Wormald 1985, pp. 23, 25, original or early copy; Scharer 1988, pp. 56-63, on royal style; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 266-7; Hooke 1990, pp. 61-3, on bounds, with map p. 62; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 148-9, 192, 376, on beneficiary; on topography, translation in EHD is misleading, Brochyl estate was probably of 4 hides (cf. S 1411), Foard's identification is impossible; The Making of England, pp. 196-7 (no. 152); King 1996a; Thompson 2006, pp. 20 et passim, on script

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    • Endorsement (s. x): Nor∂ Stur + Ego Æthilbalt domino donante rex non solum Marcersium sed et omnium provinciarum quæ generale nomine Sutangli dicuntur pro remedio animæ meæ et relaxatione piaculorum meorum aliquam terræ particulam id est . x . cassatorum venerando comite meo Cyniberhhte ad construendum cænubium in provincia cui ab antiquis nomen inditum est Husmeræ . juxta fluvium vocabulo Stur , cum omnibus necessariis ad eam pertinentibus cum campis silvisque cum piscariis pratisque in possessionem æcclesiasticam benigne largiendo trado . Ita ut quamdiu vixerit potestatem habeat tenendi ac possidendi cuicumque voluerit vel eo vivo vel certe post obitum suum relinquendi . est autem supradictus ager in circuitu ex utraque parte supranominati fluminis habens ex aquilone plaga silvam quam nominant cynibre ex occidentale vero aliam cui nomen est . moerheb . quarum pars maxima ad præfatum pertinet agrum . Si quis autem hanc donationem violare temptaverit sciat se in tremendo examine tyrannidis ac præsumptionis suæ Deo rationem terribiliter redditurum . Scripta est autem hæc cartula anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi septincentissimo tricessimo . ui indictione quarta . + Ego Ætdilbalt rex Britanniæ propriam donationem confirmans subscripsi . + Ego Uuor episcopus consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Uuilfridus episcopus jubente Æthilbaldo rege subscripsi . + Ego Æthilric subregulus atque comes gloriosissimi principis Æthilbal[di] huic donatione consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Ibe ac si indignus abbas consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Heardberht frater atque dux præfati regis consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Ebbella consensum meum acomodans subscripsi . + Ego Onoc comes subscripsi . + Ego Oba consensi et subscripsi. + Ego Sigibed consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Bercol consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Ealduuft consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Cusa consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Pede consensi et subscripsi . Est autem agrum in memorata silva moreb cui vocabulum est brochyl quem ego Edilbalt rex suutanglorum fidele duce atque comite meo Cyniberhttæ in jus ecclesiasticam cum supradicto agro largiendo donavi .