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S 371

A.D. 904 for 903. King Edward, with Æthelred and Æthelflæd, renews a landbook destroyed by fire for Æthelfrith, dux; confirmation of 20 hides (cassati) at Wrington, Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 185r-v(s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), ff. 206v-207r(s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 41(see Abrams 1996, p. 32)

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 54; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49-50 (no. 95); Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 334-336, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; K, 338, ex MS 2, without bounds; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 545-6 (no. 1016), ex MS 1; B, 606, ex MSS 1, 2; Mon. Angl., ii. 840

Comments:

Sawyer, Burton, p. 4; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 32, 39, 254-6, on MS sources; on Wrington; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, cited; Costen 1991, p. 43, possible reference to open-field agriculture in bounds; Costen 1992, p. 44, on estate; Robinson 1923, p. 45, corrupt but some genuine material; Keynes 2001, pp. 52-4, on Ealdorman Æthelfrith; Stenton 1955, p. 52, possibly authentic; Napier and Stevenson, p. 83 n. 1, a puzzling document, apparently genuine; Scott 1981, pp. 112, 201 n. 108; Bailey 2001, p. 121, on Ælfwynn; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 155, Charter from the Glastonbury archive with a close relationship to S 367a, p. 157, Charter in which Ealdorman Aethelfrith, the principal figure in S 367a, attests; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 171-8, on bounds; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 195, Description of charter contents, labelled 22, p. 336-345, Discussion of charter as likely a copy of an authentic document, later altered by Glastonbury to support their claims at Wrington, various interpretations of the historical context in which this charter would have been forged or improved, and the bounds of the property granted by the charter; Keynes 1993b, p. 309, 311-13, 'improved'; background; Finberg, ECW, no. 423, authentic basis; Keynes 1994b, pp. 1143-4, cited; Baines 1994

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    • Regnante imperpetuum et mundi monarchiam gubernante altritoni patris sobolo qui celestia simul et terrena moderatur illius etenim incarnationis anno .dcccciiii. indictione vero sexta . contigit quod Ethelfritho duci omnes hereditarii libri ignis vastatione combusti perierunt . Tali igitur necessitate cogente predictus dux rogavit Edwardum regem et Elredum quoque et Ethelfledam qui tunc principatum et potestatem gentis Merceorum sub prædicto rege tenuerunt omnes etiam senatores Merceorum ut ei consentirent et licentiam darent alios libros rescribendi . Tunc illi unanimiter omnes devota mente concesserunt ut alii ei libri scriberentur eodem modo quo et priores scripti erant in quantum eos memoriter recordari potuisset . Si vero quoslibet recordari minime potuisset . tunc ei ista cartula in auxilio et affirmatione fieret . ut nullus eum contentiose cum aliis libris affligere voluisset nec propinquus nec alienus quamvis aliquis homo aliquem de vetustis libris protulerit quem prius fraudulenter vel hora ipsius incendii vel alio quolibet tempore per furtum abstraxisset . novimus namque quod omnia que in hoc mundo contingere solent aliquando citius aliquando tardius ex memoria mortalium delapsa deveniunt nisi in cedulis litterarum caracteribus annotentur . quapropter in hac cartula innotescere ratum atque gratum satisque comodum duximus de illa videlicet terra . at . Wring' huius quantitas est . viginti cassatorum . Et hanc præfatam largitionem . ego Edred rex et totus senatus Anglorum devoto animo Ethelfrigo duci in perpet[u]am hereditatem persolvimus ut nemo post nos percipientes sine indignatione Dei omnipotentis illam irritam faciat . + Ego Athelret consensi et confirmavi . + Ego Edward rex consensi et subscripsi . Hii sunt termini prefati ruris a rege recuperati . Erest on preosteselwe . of preosteselwyn on . wrythwey . of Writhweie of wryoheme on Egelescombe . of Egelescombe on etecombe . of etecombe on Wulfcombe . Endelanges Wolfcombe midewardes ˇar on Stificleie northward of ˇar leighe on wynter acres estward . ˇanen on Swynhage . ˇanen ˇoru atteleighe to farnhamme of farnhamme on histlyngdene estward . ˇare on ˇane Berghe of ˇan Berghe to likelan . of likelan to credelinghales of credelinghale on suwardynglegh estward to Wetheleighe brok and endelanges broke to merewollen . of merewollen on estmedewen of estmedewen on wilbicanhulle . of wilbicanhulle on the heghe rewe bi southensuddonne . of ˇare heghe rewe on mererigge of mererigge on hagennedewe of hagenedewe endelang stremes on wring' to wringforde . of wringforde on ˇe heghe rewe est to schirebourne elm of ˇan elme on carstie on ˇa heghe rewe . Eft endlang ˇare heghe rewe on wythescombe . of ˇan combe on brokenanbrugge of ˇar brugge to stanbrugge of stanbrugge to wetmedewen of wetmedewen to watercombe of watercombe to ethecombe of ethecombe to elkanleighe of elkanleighe to hilisbrok on ˇane holm ˇane endelanges thes brokes eft in on wryng . ˇanen endlang wryng . Eft on the mede westward ˇanen on preostwlwe . Hanc prefatum hereditatem . Athelstan dux filius Etheredi conversus et factus monachus optulit secum ad monasterium Glastingensis illamque sibi largitus est Athelstan . Rex .