Archive: Worcester

A.D. 786 or 589 for ? 779 or 789 x 790. Offa, king of Mercia, to the monks of St Mary's church, Worcester; grant of one hide (mansa) at Broadwas, Worcs. Latin and English versions with English bounds.

 

De Bradevvassan .

Px Volutis curriculo temporum annis . dcc . lxxx . vi . anno dominicæ ac salutiferæ incarnationis .DATING CLAUSE Offa rex Merciorum in . xxxii . anno regni suiDATING CLAUSE concessitDISPOSITIVE WORD quandam ruris particulam . mansam scilicet unam . in villa quam ruricolæ Bradeuuesse appellant monachis sanctæ Mariæ Guigornensis æcclesiæ cum testium affirmatione et ex communicationum advocatione . Eo videlicet tenore juris et amplitudinis ; quo ipsemet habuit in tempore suæ dominationis.

+ Egomet vero . Offa . divinæ dispensationis gratia rex Merciorum hoc meum donum affirmando propriis manibus sanctæ crucis signaculum suppono .
+ Ego quoque Aldredus subregulus Wigornæ civitatis . hæc eadem confirmo .
+ Ego etiam Eadberht episcopus hæc eadem consigno .
+ Ego similiter Berhtun hæc eadem contestor .

De eadem re.

Ða ða wæron agane fif hundred wintra 7 nigan 7 hundeahtatig wintra fram Cristes gebyrtide . Offa kyning on þam an and þrittigan geare his kynedomesDATING CLAUSE geuþe ane hide landes æt Bradewassan into þam mynstre on Wigrecestre þam broþran to bryce a on ece swa full 7 swa forð swa he seolf hæfde.

+ Ic Offa þurh Cristes gyfe Myrcena kining ðas mine geoue mid rode tacne gefæstnige. +. Ic Aldred Wigracestres undercin'in'g þas ylce geoue gefæstnige. + Ic Eadberht bisceop þas ylce þing gefæstnige. +. Ic Berhtun ðis ylce gefæstnige.

Ðis syndon ða landgemæra into Bradewassan of Temede streame in wynna bæce . of wynna bæce in wudumor . of wudumore in wætan sihtran . of þam wætan sice in ða bakas 7 of þam bacan in ða ealdan dic . of ðære ealdan dic in seges mere . 7 of seges mere in þæs pulles heafod 7 of ðam heafde to þornbrycge . of ðornbryc[ge] in þone pull . 7 æfter þam pulle in baka brycge of baka brycge in þæt wæte sicc . 7 of þam sice in foxbæce 'of foxbæcæ' in þone wulfseað . of þam seaðe in þa ealdan stihle . 'of þære stihle' in dodhæma pull . of þam pulle eft in Temede stream. BOUNDS