Archive: Winchester, Old Minster

A.D. 924 for ? 824 (Acleah). Egbert, king of Wessex, to Wulfheard, præfectus; grant of 22 hides (manentes) on the river Meon, Hants. Latin with English bounds.

 

Ðis is þara . xxii . hyda boc æt Meone þæ Egbyrht cing gebocode Wlfwarde his reve on ece yrfæ .

Regnante domino nostro Jhesu Christo mundi huius labentibus properanter temporibus regnat . functi cum regibus velocissimo transeuntibus cursu licet stare firmiter a priori statu cito labi nullo sapiente ignotum est . et gaudia hic fallentis vitæ desiderantur .INVOCATION

Qua propter ego Ecgberhtus occidentalium Saxonum rex largiflua Dei et dapsili manu aliquam terræ partem pro remedio animæ meæ . atque expiatione priscorum scelerum meorum Wlfheado præfecto meo satis benigno animo meis episcopis seu consiliariis consentientibus largitus sumDISPOSITIVE WORD quo est juxta 'amnem' ubi incole appellant 'Meone' . mea est autem terra illa ex utraque parte fluminis juxta estimationem incolarum in modum .xxii. manentium cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus . piscariis campis . pratis . et silvis . liberamque habeat dicionem habendi . donandi . vendendi . communicendi vel relinquendi . cuicumque voluerit heredi .

Est autem age'r' ille his terminis circumdata .

On uestan þan londe æt risc mere eastan and lang ðes weges on ðone ge mer hagan and lang hagan on ðone elebeam . ðanon and lang þæs hagan betuen falod leah 7 siladæne . swa an lang hagan þið on ceorles beame . ðonne on west eal be strete . and lang sleades þið luhhes gaetes . ðanon on þone boc hagan þið ðere boc stigele . ðonne and lang hagan wið wiðig meres ðueres ober ðone mere swa ford and lang hagan wið sceadeles sceates . fore weardes . þanan east up suae ðet ealden faestan scaðe and lang ðes faestenes on readan cumb . ub an weardne . þæt hit stent on þam sieran boc hagan . And lang ðes sieran hagan on rindgesella þeores ofer done mere . ðanon on readen bexean . þonne and lang hagan on þan bæces weaste heafod . on oðeres east heafod . þanon wið eastan hriðres heafod . þanon on timber hricges snad fore weardne þær he ut cymeð . þonne on synd hilde mere . þonne an on re eadburge geat . þonne þweores ofer beor done ut on þa rode . þæt up and lang norð be eastan hyblea on ðone ealdan her pað . ðreores ofer Meone on granan treou . and lang þæs hlinces on þara þreore acra ende . up on uecær hege sioððan hege rauue on gaen da furh up wið reofnes beorges . þanon on þona cumb al swa seo forg scaðeþ on þat cymed in sceolles uuille . and lang seolesburnan eft in Meone . on ge rihta . up on uuorres sol inne on restes lea þanon and lang bæces ut to bromdene . þreores ofer bromdene on ðone here pað on crutte bracca on weodu on þone healf . þonne on þone hagan up to tycc ham stede þonan on rihc mere eastan weardne.BOUNDS

Scripta est enim hæc scedula in loco celebri ubi dicitur ac leahPROMULGATION PLACE . Anno dominicæ incarnationis . dcccc . xxiiii . indictione . ii . Anno Ecgberti regis . xxiii .DATING CLAUSE sub testimonio optimatum suorum ac principum gentis Saxoniæ nec non episcoporum quorum nomina subter ad nexa notantur .

Ego Ecgbertus divina ordinante gratia occidentalium rex hanc meam donationem signo dominico in solium domino roborando confirmo . Ego Wigðegnus episcopus civitate Wentanæ consentiendo confirmandoque subscribo . Ego Alfstanus electus in episcopatum Scireburnensis æcclesiæ consensi et subscripsi . Signum manus Byrhtelm præfecti . Signum manus Burhheardi præfecti . Signum manus Wlfheardi præfecti . Signum manus Hunes præfecti . Signum manus Hiotomannes præfecti .