Archive: Winchester, Old Minster

A.D. 826 (Southampton). Egbert, king, to the minster of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; grant of 20 hides (manentes) at Droxford, Hants. Latin with English bounds.

 

Egbyrhtes cininges landboc to Drocenesfordæ into Ealdan mynstræ .

In nomine domini nostri et salvatoris Jhesu Christi .INVOCATION Ego Ecgbertus regali fretus dignitate de terra quam processores mei atque propinqui jure michi hereditario possidendam reliquerunt aliquam portionem terræ monasterio apostolorum Petri et Pauli perpetualiter impendere largitus sumDISPOSITIVE WORD in modum videlicet ut autumo . xx . manentium ubi incolæ appellant . Drocenesforda . pro redemptione animæ meæ et omnium parentum meorum . Hanc vero donationem hac conditione roborans confirmo . ut ipse locus habeat sub proprio dominio hanc terram cum montanis . ac silvis pratisque et campis silvestreis adjunctis apud antiquitatis statuta ad eam pertinentibus . Adhuc etiam et ego prefatus rex augere amplificarique elemosinam pro amore Dei fidelique servitio prædicti monasterii terræ præfatæ ei . æt Drocenesforda omnium sæcularium gravitudinum necnon et cunctorum in modico et in magno mundialium servitutum libertatem concedo excepto expeditione et pontis factione quod omni plebe commune est .

Ðis syndon þa land gemæro to Drocenesforda . Ærest æt clefer dæne on þæt del . of þam dælle 7 lang wæges on þa hwitan floda on norþ healfæ hærepaðes on ðone litlan þorn . þæt on swalwan þorn . þonne on þæs hlinces norþ ændæ swa and lang hlincæs suð on ðæs cumbæs heafod . þonne on ðæs hlincæs west ænde æt þæm hwitan fox holum . þonne on stan burg . þonne and lang dic utt on hwitan forð . swa and lang Meone on midnæs stream on þa dic on nordhealfæ þæs fordæs . þonne on þanæ ealdan þorn swa æft utt on Meone and lang streames oð ða dic . And lang dic to ðem heþenum birigelsum . þonnæ suð and lang hling ræwe to ðæs niðær langan hlincæs east ænde . And lang hlincæs eft utt on ea þonnæ swa oð þæt wæst mæste how . þonon wæst for þonæ seal stub oð ðæt yrdland syð bæ þæ landæ on ðes willes heafoð . þonne utt on ea . swa forð suð on wuda . 7 þonnæ git oð wic hæma mearce . þonon west bæ hagan on Cyneburgan hyrstæ suþæ weardæ oð ðet scirhiltæ on þonæ greatan beam . þonne on Þunres lea middæ weardæ swa gæ rihtæ to Þroc briggæ on þonæ fulan broce . þonne utt on bitnan burnan . And lang burnan on þæs bisceopæs mearcæ swa norð to filæ leage geatæ . Þonnæ on bromburnan . And lang burnan on bromfæld . Þonne upp bæ tweonæ þa twægen bromfeldas and lang þæs alar sceatæs on þonæ fulan broc . þonne to þæs cumbæs heafdæ . þonne to þære stigelæ to þæs bisceopæs mearcæ . þonne utt on langan leagæ . þæt þweores ofer þa leage norð to wuda . þonon to þære stigelæ oð Meonwara snaðe . Swa to domnes hlincæ . þonnæ to þæm wulfpyttæ swa on ge rihna to hæsæl holt . þonnæ to clæfær dæne æft on þæt del .BOUNDS

Si quis autem hanc donationem meam augere et amplificare voluerit ; augeat Deus partem illius in libro vitæ . Si quis vero dempserit . sciat se in tremendo examine rationem reddere in die judicii coram Deo et angelis suis omnibusque sanctis .CURSE

Scripta est autem hæc donationis cartula . Anno dominicæ incarnationis . dcccxxvi . Indictione . iiii . Anno Ecgberti regis . xxiiii . Ducatus sui . Anno . xiiii .DATING CLAUSE in loco qui appellatur in OmtunePROMULGATION PLACE istis testibus consentientibus quorum nomina infra scripta videntur esse .

Ego Ecgbertus Rex libertatem præfatæ terræ cum signo sanctæ crucis hanc donationem meam confirmo . Ego Wulfhelm Dorobernensis æcclesiæ archiepiscopus ejusdem regis donationem cum tropheo agiæ crucis consignavi . Ego Ælfheah Wintoniensis æcclesiæ episcopus triumphalem tropheum agyæ crucis impressi . Ego Þeodred Lundoniensis æcclesiæ episcopus consignavi . Ego Cenwald episcopus predictum donum consensi . Ego Withegn episcopus . Ego Herefærd episcopus . Ego Wulfhun episcopus . Ego Oda episcopus . Ego Wulfhelm episcopus . Ego Burhrig episcopus . Ego Æþelgar episcopus . Ego Burhardi dux . Ego Wlfhardi dux . Ego Ælfhære dux . Ego Wulfgar dux . Ego Æðelstan dux . Ego Uthred dux . Ego Oda dux . Ego Alhstan dux . Ego Eadmund dux . Ego Monnedes minister . Ego Hunes minister . Ego Wehhelm minister . Ego Eadmund minister . Ego Ælfric minister . Ego Wulfsige minister . Ego Witgar minister . Ego Æðelwold minister . Ego Ælfred minister . Ego Wulfmer minister . Ego Wulfgar minister . Ego Ælfsigæ minister . Ego Ordeah minister . Ego Sigulf minister . Ego Eadric minister . Ego Ealhhelm minister .