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S 1504

A.D. 946 x 947. Will of Ealdorman Æthelwold, including bequests of 12 hides at Wylye, Wilts., to the bishop and episcopal community at Winchester; land at Ogbourne in Wilts., Æscesdune (cf. Ashdown) in Berks., Cheam in Surrey and Washington in Sussex, to his brother Eadric; at Broadwater in Sussex and South Newton in Wilts., to his brother Athelstan; at Carcel to his brother's son, Ælfsige; and at Cleran (Kingsclere, Hants.) to the son of his brother Ælfstan. English

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 87r-v (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 1173 ; B, 819 ; Earle, pp. 360-1 ; Wyatt 1919, pp. 117-18

Comments:

Darlington 1955, p. 86 ; Ekwall 1959, p. 88, suggests Carcel is Silchester, Hants ; Brooks 1978, pp. 87-91, on heriot ; Dumville 1992, p. 44, on testator ; Hart 1992, p. 573 ; Keynes 1992, p. 63 n. 45, on form of address ; Abrams 1996, pp. 48-9, on Æscesdune ; Keynes 1996, p. 59 n. 39, on commemoration of testator ; Harmer, SEHD, pp. 116-19 ; Finberg, ECW, no. 65 (pp. 42-3, 88), authentic, land at Wylye was probably Stockton ; Hart 1970a, p. 34 (no. 153), authentic ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 51, authentic

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    • Her geswutelad ˇæt Eadred cing geuˇe ˇæt land æt Wilig ˇa twelf hida to scrudfultume ˇam hirede into Ealdan Mynstre. Leof, Æˇelwold ealdarman cyˇ his leofan cynehlaforde Eadred cynge hu ic wille ymbe ˇa landare ˇe ic æt mine hlaforde geearnode. Ærest Gode 7 ˇære halgan stowe æt ˇam bisceopstole æt Wintanceastre, ˇam bisceope 7 ˇam hiwum, ˇæt land æt Wilig ˇa twelf hida to scrudfultume, ˇæt hi me on heora gebeddredenne hæbben, swa swa ic him to gelyfe. 7 ˇam cinge minne hæregeatwa: feower sweord 7 feower spæra 7 feower scyldas 7 feower beagas, twegen on hundtwelftigum mancosun 7 twegen on hundeahtatigum, 7 feorwer hors 7 twa sylfrene fata. 7 minum bre∂er Eadrice ˇæt land æt Oceburnan 7 æt Æscesdune 7 æt Cegham 7 æt Wessingatune. 7 Æˇelstane minæ bre∂er ˇet land æt Bradanwætere 7 ˇet æt Niwantune. 7 Ælfsige mine bro∂orsuna ˇet land æt Carcel. 7 Ælfstanes suna mines broˇor ˇæt land æt Cleran. 7 eall ˇæt yrfe ˇæ ic hæbbe on lænelandum, ˇonne wylle ic ˇæt ˇæt sie gedeled for mine sawle swa swa ic nu ˇam freondum sæde ˇæ ic to spræc.