Archive: Malmesbury

A.D. 854. Æthelwulf, king of Wessex, to St Peter and the familia of Malmesbury; grant of 5 hides (mansiones) at Tockenham, Wilts. Latin.

 

Tockeham .

Regnante imperpetuum domino nostro Jhesu Christo .INVOCATION Ego Æthelwlf rex partem terre Gewisorum hoc est . v . mansiones donavi Deo 7 sancto Petro 7 familie Maldubiensi in loco qui dicitur Tockenham . eotenus ut ipsi jugiter orent pro nobis Deum omnipotentem . quatinus prospera tempora nobis largiatur ad conservandam fidem nostram 7 regni nostri gubernacula per omnia tempora gentis Anglorum . Et nemo audeat hoc donum mutare ab ipso monasterio sine ira 7 vindicta omnipotentis Dei . Et hoc donum factum est anno ab incarnacione domini .dcccliiii. Indiccione .iii.DATING CLAUSE

Isti sunt testes .

Aeþelwlf rex .
Aelstan episcopus .
Swithun episcopus .
Aethelbold dux .
Eawlf dux .
Sirerich dux .
Atheberth dux .
Ulthere dux .
Lullede dux .
Ulflaf abbas .
Þerfarw abbas .
Esne minister .
Aethelred filius regis .
Aelred filius regis .
Cyneah minister .
Cuthwlf minister .
Ecgeard minister .
Osmund minister .
Milred minister .
Lulling minister .