+ Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jesu Christo .INVOCATION Ejusdemque autem Incarnationis dccc o . lxxx o . iiii . Indictione vero secunda .DATING CLAUSE Ego Aeþelred divina largiente gratia principatu 7 dominio gentis Merciorum subfultus donatione tradoDISPOSITIVE WORD Aeðelwulfo terram v . manentium in loco qui dicitur . Hymeltun . hanc autem supradictam terram cum omnibus ad eam pertinentibus . Id est silvis . pratis . pascuis . salisque coctionibus . Id est vi . vascula possint præparari salva libertate sine aliquo tributo dominatoris gentis prædicte sine ducum Judicumve 7 præsidum . Id est statione sine in oneratione plaustrorum nisi solo illi qui huic prædicte terre Hymeltune dominus existat . Cum testimonio 7 consensu ipsorum damus quorum hic nomina inferius scripta cernuntur : . Hæc supradictæ optimatum gentis Merciorum gubernante Aeþelredo duce .

Acta est in Hrisbyri ubi tunc ipsorum conventio publica fuerunt conloquentes sibi invicem de necessariis gentis prædictæ statutis . Obsecrantes omnes ævi sequentis cujuslibet dictionibus homines per tremendum distructi justique judicis examen ut hæc traditio sive in terra prædicta sive in vico salis absque omni censu atque tributo perpetualiter libera permaneant . Et si quis id quod non optamus corrumpendo foederaverit . Sciat se rationem redditurum in die judicii coram Deo 7 angelis ejus nisi prius digna satisfactione emendare curaverit .CURSE Testium autem consentientium et scribentiam nomina hæc sunt : .

Ego Æðelred Merciorum gentis ducatum gubernans confirmare 7 subscribere curavi: .
Wulfred Episcopus consensi 7 subscripsi : .
Ego Werfriþ Episcopus consensi 7 subscripsi: .
Deorlaf Episcopus consensi : .
Aþelwald ealdorman .
Aeðulf ealdorman .
Beornaþ aldorman .
Aeþelferþ ealdorman .
Alhhelm aldorman .
Eardwulf .
Elfwald .
Eadnoþ .
Aelfred .
Aeþelmund .

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