+ In nomine patris et filii et spiritus sancti.INVOCATION Ceolred abbas 7 ða higan on Medeshamstede sellað Wulfrede ðet land æt Sempingaham in ðas gerednisse . ðet he hit hEbbe 7 bruce sua lange sua he life . 7 anum ærfeuuarde æfter him . 7 elce gere sextig foðra wuda to ðEm ham on Hornan ðæm wuda . 7 tuelf foðer græfan . 7 sex foður gerda. End forðon we him ðis land sellað . ðet he ðes landes fulne friodom bigete . in ece ærfeweardnisse æt Sempingaham . 7 æt Slioforda . 7 bruce þere cirican lafard on Medeshamstede ðes landes æt Slioforda . 7 Wulfred ðes on Sempingaham . 7 he geselle eghwelce gere to Medeshamstede tua tunnan fulle luhtres aloh . 7 tua slegne'a't . 7 sEx hund lafes . 7 ten mittan WEl's'ces aloð . 7 þere cirican laforde geselle eghwelce gere hors 7 ðrittig scillinga . 7 hine ane niht gefeormige . fiftene mitta luhtres aloð .v. mitta welsces aloð fiftene sestras liðes . 7 hi sion symle in allum here life eadmode 7 hearsume . 7 underþeodde . 7 ofer here tuega dEg . þonne agefe hio þet land into þere cirican to Medeshamstede mid freodome . 7 we him þis sellað mid felda 7 mid wuda 7 mid fenne sua þerto belimpeð. Sið heora tuuege dæg agan sie þonne agefe mon tuuenti hida higuum to biodland 7 þere cirican lafe'a'rde .xii. hida land æt Forde 7 æt Cegle . 7 he wes feorm'i'ed tuuege hida landes æt LEhcotum . his erfeweorda sweolcum swelce him ðonne gesibbast were 7 þat were fulfredes cynne ge fre . swa sua þet oðer into þere cirican . Anno uero dominice incarnationis .doccco liio. Indictione .xv. hoc factum est.DATING CLAUSE

Her sindan ða naman ðere monna þe þis wreotan 7 festnedan. Burgred rex. CElnoth archepiscopus Tunber'h't episcopus. Ceored episcopus. Alchun episcopus. Berhtred episcopus Wihtred abbas. Werheard abbas. Æthelhard dux. Hunberht dux. Aldberht dux. Beornhard dux. Mucel dux. Osmund dux. Ælfstan dux. Aldred dux. Wenberht dux. Eadulf. Ic Ceolred abbas þas ure selene . mid Cristes rode tacne trymme 7 festnie. Aldberht præpositus Alcheard presbiter. Eanred presbiter. Wilheard presbiter. Cenferð presbiter. Cyneweald presbiter. Eaduuald presbiter. Egberht diaconus. Humberht diaconus Aldelm. Brynuuald. Tunwulf.