Archive: Worcester

A.D. 718 x 745. Wilfred, bishop of the Hwicce, to Leppa, comes, and his daughter, Beage; lease, for two lives, of 5 hides (cassati) by the river Colne (at Bibury, Gloucs.), with reversion to the see of Worcester. Latin with English bounds.

 

Beagan byrig.

+ In nomine domini JhesuINVOCATION ; Terram quindecim cassatorum juxta fluvium cui nomen est Cunuglae ad metropolim Huicciorum . id est . Uuegrinancæstir pertinentem tertiam partem . hoc est . quinque cassatos; Ego Uuilfrið episcopus diocesis Huuicciorum . viro non ignobili reverentissimo comiti cui nomen est Leppa propter veterem inter nos amicitiam libentissime in possessionem donans concedoDISPOSITIVE WORD . Ita tamen ut post terminum dierum ejus et filiæ suæ quæ vocatur Beage ; Eadem agelli pars ad episcopalem sedem præfatæ parrochiæ cum suis sumtis iterum reddatur . propter firmitatem huius conditionis ;

+ Ego Æþelbaldus rex Merciorum . Signum sanctæ crucis inposui cum terminis .
Of cunuglan sulhforda ond long drihtnes dene on leppan crundlas . þat on east hleopan . 7 swa on rawan berh . þonne þweres ofer ða dene on ða aldan dic æt Lec;
+ Ego Wilfriðus episcopus consensi et subscripsi subinsertis .
+ Ego Æþelric subscripsi .
+ Ego Ælbred consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego Heardberht consensi et subscripsi .
+ Ego Leppa consentiendo subscribo;