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A.D. 676 (= 675, 6 Nov.). Osric, king, to Bertana, abbess; grant of 100 hides (manentes) at Bath, Somerset, for the foundation of a nunnery. Latin

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Bath

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, pp. 59-60 (s. xii 2)

Printed:

K, 12 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 264 (no. 2) ; B, 43, ex K ; Earle, pp. 6-7 ; Hunt, Bath Carts., p. 6 ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 12

Comments:

Brooks 1974, p. 225, cited with reference to Harrison's discussion of date ; Sims-Williams 1975, especially pp. 1-6, sanction and witness-list at least derive for genuine earlier charter, other details (e.g. abbess's name) depend on early records ; Harrison 1976, pp. 67-9, some very early features ; Scharer 1982, p. 76 n. 32, spurious ; Cunliffe 1984, pp. 347-8, on Bath ; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy ; Edwards 1988, pp. 218-23, authentic basis but substantially interpolated and rewritten, may not originally have referred to a minster in Bath ; Sims-Williams 1988, pp. 165-74, entire charter may belong to 675, literary proem may show Aldhelm's influence ; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 56-7, 104, 111-13, 120, may have genuine basis. ; HS, p. 129, doubtful, the indiction is wrong and there are two bishops of the West Saxons ; Finberg, ECW, no. 355, authentic basis ; Finberg, ECWM, pp. 172-4, perhaps amplified from a shorter authentic charter ; Harrison 1973a, pp. 553-4, 556, authentic basis, discusses dating-clause

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    • Regnante ac gubernante regimonia regni Osrici regis, anno recapitulationis Dionisii, id est ab incarnatione Domini nostri Iesu Christi sexcentesimo septuagesimo sexto, indictione .iiiita., mense Nouembrio, .viii. idus Nouembris.
      Cum nobis euangelica et apostolica dogmata post baptismi sacramentum Deo suffragante fuissent delata et omnia simulachrorum figmenta ridiculosa funditus diruta, tum primitus ad augmentum catholice et orthodoxe fidei pontificalem dumtaxat cathedram erigentes iuxta sinodalia decreta construere censuimus. At uero nunc cum gratia superna longe lateque profusius enitesceret, cenobialia etiam loca sparsim uirorum sparsimque uirginum Deo famulantium erigenda statuimus, ut ubi truculentus et nefandus prius draco errorum deceptionibus seruiebat, nunc uersa uice ecclesiasticus ordo in clero conuersantium Domino patrocinante gaudens tripudiet.
      Quam ob rem ego supradictus Osricus rex, pro remedio anime mee et indulgentia piaculorum meorum, hoc priuilegium impendere ad laudem nominis Domini nostri decreueram, id est Bertane abbatisse, que pro Christiana deuotione ac pro spe eterne beatitudinis Dei famulam se profitetur, centum manentes qui adiacent ciuitati que uocatur hat Bathu tribuens ad construendum monasterium sanctarum uirginum. Igitur subnixis precibus imploro ut nullus post obitum meum de ea cespitis conditione tollere uel auferre quippiam contra canonice auctoritatis interdictum pertinaciter presumat. Si quis uero quod absit succedentium episcoporum seu regum contra hanc nostre diffinitionis cartulam propria temeritate presumere temptauerit, sit sequestratus a communione corporis Domini nostri Iesu Christi et a consortio omnium sanctorum in euum priuatus.
      Signum manus Osrici regis qui hanc cartam donationis fieri rogauit. +
      Ego Æðelredus rex consensi et subscripsi. +
      Ego Theodorus gratia Dei archiepiscopus testis subscripsi. +
      Ego Leutherius acsi indignus episcopus subscripsi. +
      Ego Wilfridus episcopus consensi et subscripsi. +
      Ego Hedda episcopus consensi et subscripsi. +
      Ego Ergnualdus episcopus consensi et subscripsi. +
      Ego Saxuulfus episcopus consensi et subscripsi. +
      Signum Baldredi
      Osuualdi
      Gadfridi
      Æðelmodi.
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    • + Regnante ac gubernante regimonia regni Osrici regis , anno recapitulationis Dionysii , id est , ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi sexcentesimo septuagesimo sexto , indictione quarta , mense Novembris . viiio idus Novembris . Cum nobis evang