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Archive: Malmesbury

A.D. 680. Cenfrith, comes Merciorum, to Aldhelm, abbot; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Wootton Bassett, Wilts. Latin.

 

Fortuna fallentis seculi procax , non lacteo immarcescibilium liliorum candore amabilis , sed fellita ejulandæ corruptionis amaritudine odibilis , filios in valle lacrimarum fetentis carnis rictibus venenosis mordaciter dilacerat ; quæ quamvis arridendo sit infelicibus attrectabilis , Acherontici tamen ad ima Cociti , ni Satus alti subveniat boantis , impudenter est declivis . Et ideo , quia ipsa ruinosa tanaliter dilabitur , summopere festinandum est ad amena indicibilis letitiæ arva , ubi angelica himnidicæ jubilationis organa , mellifluaque rosarum odoramina , a bonis beatisque naribus inestimabiliter dulcia capiuntur sineque calce auribus felitium hauriuntur.PROEM Cujus amore felicitatis illectus, ego Cenfrithus , comes Mertiorum, quandam telluris particulam venerabili abbati Aldhelmo , sub estimatione . x . cassatorum , in loco qui dicitur Wdetun ad serviendum Deo et sancto Petro in perpetuum jus largitus sumDISPOSITIVE WORD cum consensu domini mei Ethelredi regis. Anno ab incarnatione domini . dc.mo lxxx.mo, indictione viii.DATING CLAUSE

Birch notes 'For witnesses, see No. 64 [S 232]'.

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