S 1263

Archive: Winchester, Old Minster

A.D. (801 x 803) x (805 x 814). Ealhmund, bishop of Winchester, to Brihthelm; grant of 60 hides (cassati) at Farnham, Surrey, in exchange for 33 hides (manentes) at Wootton Rivers, Mildenhall, Froxfield and Bedwyn, Wilts., and 2 nights entertainment at Farnham every year for the bishop and his heirs, and an annual render of 10 jars of honey. If Brihthelm or any of his heirs wishes to sell the land, the church at Winchester is to be given the first option to purchase it, paying only for [40] hides. Latin.

 

Piissimo Deo imperpetuum cuncta gubernante ipso suffragante .INVOCATION Ego Alhmundus . episcopus Wentanæ civitatis Wintoniæ æcclesiæ sancti Petri pro multimoda utilitate et necessitate cum consensu et consilio presbyterorum ac cæterorum Dei famulorum terram . lx . cassatorum ubi nuncupatur . Fernham . Byrhtelmo in propriam dedi potestatem in vicissitudinem alterius agelluli in quaternis dirivatum locis . id est . Wdutun . Mildanhald . Forscan feld . Bedewinde . cujus calculanti . xxxiii . manentes . De illis vero . lx . cassatis . xxiiii . supersunt . unicuique anno de illa partum ac refectionem duorum noctium . episcopo Wentanæ civitatis ille heredesque ejus . in Ferhnam . dent ac preparent . necnon et . x . anforas de melle omni similiter anno sine aliqua utrumque controversione resolvant . Possessio vero amborum seu . lx . cassatorum illi heredibusque suis juxta enucleatam dicionem imperpetuum . sive . xxxiii . nobis subjugantur . Si vero voluntarie vel necessarie pertingat . ut aliquis ex heredibus ejus . aut ipse Ferhnham vendere mavellet . tunc primum nostræ æcclesiæ domino innotescatur . et ab eo . lx . manentes digno pretio placabili solvantur cæteri . xx . Insoluti sine pretio reddantur .