S 913

A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to the bishopric of St Davids (Deowiesstow); grant of land at Over in Almondsbury, Gloucs. (with reversion to the church of Worcester after 3 lives, MS 1 only). Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184v (s. xi)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 118v (s. xi)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, p. 479, ex MS 1; Ker 1948, p. 73, ex MS 2; Ker 1948, p. 74, ex MS 1

Comments:

Ker 1948, pp. 73-4, possibly no more than formulary exercises; Finberg, ECWM, no. 147, authentic, background to the grant may have been a period when the bishop of St Davids acted as deputy for the bishop of Worcester; Keynes 1980, pp. 115 n. 110, 261, abbreviated, authenticity uncertain

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    • (a) Regnante in perpetuum Domino nostro Iesu Christo per immensa quadriflui orbis clupeam. Anno eiusdem incarnationis millesimo .v. indictione .iii. Ego Æ∂elred rex Anglorum cum consensu eiusdem gentis episcoporum uel principum, pro redemptione animarum nostrarum et pro sospitate necnon et regni nostri quandam ruris portionem hoc est [..] manentium æt Ofre ad episcopalem sedem qui dicitur Deowiesstow plena mentis deuotione humiliter perdonabo in sempiternam hereditatem. Pax seruantibus et custodientibus hanc nostram donationem; contradicentibus uero sit dampnatio nisi ante hic emendauerint. Ego Æˇelred rex Anglorum hanc meam elemosinam propria manu confirmabo. (b) Regnante in perpetuum Domino nostro Iesu Christo anno eiusdem incarnationis millesimo quinto ego Æˇelred rex Anglorum cum consensu eiusdem gentis episcoporum et principum pro redemptione anime mee quandam ruris particulam æt Ofre concedo ad episcopalem sedem æt Dewiesstowe trium hominum spatio dierum. Quibus decursis ad Wigornensem restituatur ecclesiam ea tamen conditione tamen interposita, ut ille qui preest episcopatui predicte in omnibus subditus sit Wigornensis ecclesie pastori.