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Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

A.D. 716 x 757. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Wihtred, his comes, and to Ansith, Wihtred's wife; grant of 7 hides (manentes) in the regio called Geddinges (cf. Yeading), Middx. Latin with bounds.

 

In nomine domini nostri Jhesu Christi .INVOCATION

Nichil intulimus in hunc mundum sed nec auferre quid possumus . Ideo præmia æternæ patriæ nobis caducis cælestia momentaneis manentia sunt mercanda .PROEM

Iccirco ego Æthelbaldus rex Merciorum domino dispensante comite meo Withredo conjugique ejus Ansithe terram . vii tem . manencium in provincia Midelsexorum . in regione quæ dicitur Geddinges in australi atque in occidente habens torrentem cujus vocabulum Ficesburne . et in aquilonale ulterius quam via publica jacet . duorum jujerum latitudine in oriente in aquam quæ anglorum lingua Lake nominatur habens . quæ est duarum quæ ibi sunt . ulterior usque dum illam accipient sulcesque precedunt . Insuper memoratam aquam . id est Fissesburnam ea racione prorogans dono ut sit æcclesiastice juris potestate subdita in per[pet]uum nunquam ego ullusque successorum meorum contra hanc donacionis descriptionem venire temptaverit .BOUNDS

Quod si quis hoc præsumserit . noverit se in districto examine domino racionem reddendam insuper cum raptoribus insolubilem subire sentenciam .

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