Archive: Selsey

A.D. 775 for c. 705 x c. 717. Nunna, king of Sussex, to Eadberht, bishop; grant of 20 hides (tributarii) at Hugabeorgum and Dene (probably East and West Dean near Chichester). Latin with English bounds.

 

Endorsements:
(1) in same hand as main text: þis is seo landboc þe Nunna cyng gebocade Eadberhte b' into Hugabeorgum .xx. hida.
(2) in a hand of s. xviii (? William Clark): A Part of a Saxon Grant forged to Support the Estates of the Church against Norman Claims but probably an honest Fraud.

[Regnante perhenniter Deo ac Domino nostro] Iesu Christo simulque spiritui sancto par[aclit]o in tribus personis una deitas sine fin[e permansura.INVOCATION Qua de re unicuique cogitandum quantum sibi suf]ficiat possessio, ut cum rebus tran[s]itoriis labentibusque sibi æterna pre[paret premia, quod huius uite presentis quibusque nolentibus] uel uolentibus adpropinquat ter[mi]nus.PROEM Quam ob rem ego Nunna rex A[ustralium Saxonum aliquas telluris partes pro amore Dei et cele]stis patriae uenerando episcopo Eadberhto in suum et in Dei seruitium liberata [assensu seculari eternaliter conscribo et firmiter ad] episcopalem sedem adtingens, cum totis ad eam pertinentibus, in campis, in siluis, m[ontanis, pascuis, piscuariis. Terra que uocitatur] Hugabeorgum et æt Dene .xx. tributarios libenti animo attribuo. Si quis au[tem successorum meorum quod absit hanc donationem] meam in modico uel in magno minuere uel inuadere temptauerit, sciat se in treme[ndo examine coram Christo rationem reddere, nisi ante satisfactio]ne [emen]dauerit.

Istis terminibus circumgirata esse uidentur. [...]g dices on ðeodweg, norð ofer þone weg to [...]ingtunes dices east ende, of ðære dic norð [...]e 7 þanan east to freccehlince, of þam hlince to halignesse beorge, of þam beorge east to stæ[...]m garan, of þam garan to þam byrgelsan, of þæm byrgelsan to billingabyrig, 7 swa andlang [...]læse, 7 ða dænn ærest þær scealces burna 7 bollanea hi gegaderiað on norð healfe þæs br[...] 7 Bulan hol 7 Isenan æwylm 7 Sængelpicos 7 Feale leag, Tibban hol.BOUNDS

[Scripta est autem hec cartula anno] ab incarnatione Domini .dcclxxv., indiction[e .ii.]DATING CLAUSE Testium ergo et consentientium huic donation[i signa eterna demonstrabo.

+ Ego Nunna rex primus c]rucis Christi signo munio.
+ Ego U[uattus rex] c[onsensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Eadbrigh episcopus michi terram] tribuatam confirmo signo [cr]ucis Christi.
+ Ego C[oenredus rex Westsaxonum roboraui.
+ Ego Ine consensi et] propria manu sc[ri]psi.