Archive: Shaftesbury

? A.D. 869 or 870 (Woodyates, Dorset). Æthelred, king of Wessex, to Ælfstan, ealdorman; grant of 5 hides at Cheselbourne, Dorset. English with bounds.

 

Rubric: + Atheldredus rex huius carminis inscripcione dimisit et uendidit v. hidas ad Cheselburniam cum omnibus rite pertinentibus ut in subsequente scripto subnotatur.

Regnante imperpetuum Domino nostro Iesu Christo.INVOCATION Rixiende ure dritte halende Crist.PROEM Ich Atheldred mid Godes giue Westsaxne king mid leue and eþeafunghe mine ðare seleste wiotene, ich forgiue and selleDISPOSITIVE WORD for me selfne minre saule to alesnesse minne ðam leueste and itreweste alderman Elfstane alchene idal landes in þare istowe þe is inemned be Chiselburne fif hide, him to habbene and to brukende on elche halue, þat is þanne þat it bie isien fre of al ikenelricre and alderdomelere þinghe an iwitradenne, an of elchene þinghe buten fierde and angieldes. And het it acheliche fre þurg wine habbe suelcman suo al se ich it habbe gief donne huelman be segen þat he þis giue, and sale ieche oð manifelde wille, iache him almigti God alle goode hereforwolde and his igaste furch, agiue þa ache reste in ðam towarde liue. If þat ilimpe þat oniman þurch deules lore and for þeses middelerdes idle þinghe on onni idale ilitel oþer michel þis ibroke oþer iwanie, wite he hine fram alle leaffulle inne þese iworlde asceaden, and he des sel in domes deghe beforen Criste rich agieldende bute he it are her on worlde mid richte ibete.CURSE

Ðis land is þisen imare, þus ute ðinsald. Arest on landscar hlinc to Cheselburne, þannen anlang streames, þanen up of streame on anne linkes haued, þanen be suðe ceatwanberge on þanne hlinc, of þanne ihlinche on anne castel at swindone uuewearde, of þe castele to burnstowe, þanen up anlang burnstowe, þanen on anne linkes heued, þanen to anne castele, of þo icastel on þere herepaþ westward, ep ðe herepað on þat hlinc reawe, þanen on anne crundel to burnstowe, on anne cinep, on ðan gerðe lande nordewarde, þanen wið anne crundeles, of þi crundele on des heges hirnen, þanen eft to herepað, of þe ereðe on Hendune beorch, on Deflisch, of dune anlang streames, up on streame on anne furch, on anne stancastel, of þi castele on bliequemannes beorg, of þa iberge on land scare hlinc, and sex made eres be Frume wið Deuliscmad ierð to þise land . BOUNDS

Ðises landes freols was iwriten in þare stowe þat is inemned at WudegatePROMULGATION PLACE beforen þese wetene þe here namen her beneþen amerkede standen.

Aþeldred Rex. + Ealferð episcopus. + Heahmund episcopus et ceteri. +