S:
K:
B:

expand Instant Sawyer

S 1280

A.D. 904. Wærferth, bishop, and the community at Worcester, to Æthelred and Æthelflæd, their lords; lease, for their lives and that of Ælfwyn, their daughter, of a messuage (haga) in Worcester and land at Barbourne in North Claines, Worcs., with reversion to the bishop. Bounds of appurtentant meadow west of the Severn. Latin with English and English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 182r (s. xi)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 6v-7v (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 13-15 ; K, 339 ; B, 608 ; Hooke 1990, p. 241, bounds only

Comments:

Robinson 1923, p. 38, on a witness ; Forsberg 1950, p. 23, on a boundary mark ; Wilson 1959, pp. 301-2, on language ; Clarke and Dyer 1968-9, p. 29, on topography ; Finberg 1972, p. 495 ; Dyer 1980, p. 27 ; Hooke 1980, pp. 39-41, 47, 48, 49, on bounds and topography, with partial edition and translation ; Hooke 1990, pp. 241-3, discusses bounds and location of Worcester haga ; Whybra 1990, pp. 33, 60 ; Baker et al. 1992, pp. 67, 72-3, on topography ; Baker and Holt 1996, pp. 134-5, 140, on topography ; Keynes 1998, pp. 37 n. 159, 38 n. 163 ; Bailey 2001, pp. 117-18, on Ælfwynn ; Dumville 2003, on identity of witness named Cynath ; Robertson, Charters, pp. 294-6, incarnation year and indiction not compatible, but witnesses support year 904 ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 272, authentic ; Sawyer, Burton, p. 2

Show all data

  • Metadata

    Text

  • Metadata

    Old Text

    • Heading from MS 1: E∂eredes gerEdnesse 7 E∂elflede wi∂ Werfri∂ biscop :--? Note in Left Margin of MS 2: Lænhaga 7 landlæn Æˇerede 7 Æˇelflæde Omnibus namque sapientibus notvm ac manifestvm constat . quod dicta hominum uel facta pro multiplicibus criminum perturbationibus et cogitationum uagationibus frequenter ex memoria recedunt nisi litterarum apicibus et custodiE cautela scripturarum reseruentur et ad memoriam reuocentur. Quamobrem anno dominicE incarnationis dcccc. iiii. indictione .i. has ob memoriam posteritatis litteras scribere iussimus. ˝æt is ˇonne ˇæt Werfri∂ biscop 7 se hired æt Wigraceastre sylla∂ 7 gewrita∂ Æˇelrede 7 Æˇelflæde heora hlafordum ˇonæ hagan binnan byri æt Wigraceastre . se is fram ˇære ea sylfre bi ˇæm nor∂walle eastwardes .xxviii. roda lang . 7 ˇonon suˇwardes .xx. iiii. roda brad . 7 eft ˇonon westwardes on Sæferne .xix. roda long . 7 eac hi sylla∂ him ˇæt medwe land bewestan Sæferne on efen ˇone hagan . andlang ˇæs bisceopes dic of ˇære ea ˇæt hit cym∂ west ut on ˇæt mor dic . 7 swa nor∂ ˇæt hit cym∂ ut on efen ˇæt gelad . 7 swa estwardes ˇæt hit cym∂ eft wi∂neoˇan ˇæt gelad on Sæferne. Eac hi sylla∂ him Beferburnan . 7 eac ˇærto .lx. æcera ear∂londes besuˇan Beferburnan . 7 oˇre .lx. benor∂an . 7 ec swyˇe rumedlice .xii. æceras ˇærto fulgodes mædlandes . 7 eall hi sylla∂ ˇiss heom mid milde mode . 7 wilnia∂ him to ˇæt hi syn eig∂er ge hlafordes freond ge ˇara hina . ge ˇære cyrcan . 7 hig his wylla∂ alning hieom toearnien dæges 7 nihtes mid heora godcundnesse . swa hi betst magon . 7 hi hit habban a ge binnan byrig ge butan unbesacen wi∂ ælce hand ˇa hwyle ˇe hi lifgean . 7 gif Ælfwyn leng sy . ˇonne sy hit swa unbesacen ˇa hwile ˇe heo lifige . 7 ofer heora ˇreora dæig . agefe hit mon eft ˇære circean hlaforde . swa gegodad swa hit ˇonne sy . for heora ˇreora sawle . buton ælcum geflite . gif God wile ˇæt hig hit godian motan. Augentibus et custodientibus retributio EternE beatitudinis augeatur in cElo . minuentes et frangentes sempiterna increpatione redarguantur . nisi prius digna satisfactione emendauerint . ˇas gerædnesse eall se hired ge iunge ge ealde mid Cristes rode tacne gefæstnodon . 7 ˇara .xii. noman her standa∂ awritene bæftan 7 eac ˇara freonda noman ˇe we us to gewitnesse curon . + Æˇelred aldorman 7 Æˇelflæd Myrcna hlafordas mid us hit gewriton. + Ego Werfri∂ episcopus propria manu consensi et corroboro . + Ego Kinelm abbas. + Ego Ecgfri∂ presbiter consensi. + Ego Wiglaf presbiter. + Ego Oslac presbiter. + Ego Cina∂ diaconus. + Bernhelm. + Eardulfus. + Wlfred. + Ceolhelm. + Wllaf. + Alhmund. + Edgar biscop. + Aldred. + Æˇelfri∂ ealdormann. + Ælfred. + Ælfstan. + Eadric. + Wlfhun. + Æˇeredes gerædnesse 7 Æˇelflæde wi∂ Werfri∂ biscop 7 wiˇ ˇone hired on Wegernaceaster.