Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

(1) A.D. 889. Swithulf, bishop, and the community at Rochester, to Beorhtwulf; grant of a half sulung (aratrum) at Haddun (Haven Street in Frindsbury), with meadows at Beckley and Strood, Kent. Latin with English bounds. (2) A.D. 963 x 975. Endorsement by King Edgar granting the land to Leofric. English.

 

Endorsements:
Haddune booc
Suiþulfus episcopus Roffensis . 7 conventus dederunt Biortuulfo dimidium aratri at Haddun
Latine

(1.) + Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jhesu ChristoINVOCATION Omnia regna huius labentis vitæ regnorumque dispensatores ab initio histius saeculi cum velocitate deficientes ceciderunt , Ideo fugitivis ex mortalibus rebus æterna gaudia promerenda sunt .PROEM Qua propter ego Swiðuulf episcopus 7 ða higan æt Hrofes cestre , dabunt Biorhtuulfo pr' aliquam partem terre in provincio Cantiæ in regione que vocatur Haddun id est dimidium unius aratri pro ejus placabili pecunio in hereditatem sempiternam jure hereditorio tibi ad habendum æt possidendum feliciter perfruendum in dies tuos æt post dies tuos cuicumque herede tibi placuerit derelinquendum liberam per omnia habeas potestatem ,

Hæc sunt ætenim termini histius predicti agelli circum jacentia bisceopes mearc an norðan east be hun'e'sbiorge oð ciolmundes mearce 7 ðes lan'des' mere swe suð ober haddune middewearde 7 ober ðane ealdan tunsteall oð cinges mearce 7 suð be cinges mearce oð ðane myclan del norðan 7 west be cinges mearce oð ciolmundes wioda 7 west be ðy wioda andlanges ðare rode oð ðane pyt 7 east fram ðy pytte ðurh ðane wioda wið suðan hunesbiorge . . . . . . 7 wen weg '....ðy lande' ober ciolmundes land to ealdan strete ,BOUNDS

Hæc sunt prata que . ad illam terram pertinent . i . et bioccan lea, 7 'an' suð healfe strodes an cyninges medum ða ðe ðær to belimpað .

Anni domini nostri Jhesu Christi dccclxxxviiii .DATING CLAUSE scripta est hec cartula . his testibus consentientibus æt subscriventibus quorum hic nomina tenentur adscripta , , ,

+ Ego Suuiðulf episcopus hanc donationem signo sancte crucis Christi confirmavi .
+ Ego Sigehelm dux consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Eallhere minister consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Dioruulf pr' consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Earduulf pr' consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Sigebearht pr' consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Ciolmund archidiaconus consensi 7 subscripsi .
+ Ego Ealhstan diaconus consensi 7 subscripsi .

(2.) + Eadgar cynincg of his agenre handa sealde þas boc Leofrice on þara gewitnesse þe her beniþan standaþ.
Dunstan . archiepiscopus .
+ Aþelwold episcopus .
Oswald episcopus .
Ælfhere . dux .
Ælfwine frater ejus .
+ Wulfstan . minister .
Osgar abbas .
Ealdred minister .
Eadelm minister .
Wulfheh minister .
Leofstan minister .
Ælfheh minister .
Wulfsige minister .
Byrhtric minister .
Wulfsige minister .
Leofric minister .