Record # 40 (Sawyer 1304, dated 963)

 

[BL Add. 46204 frags.]

 

þas genbec hyrað into wincescumbe.

æt heortforda. æþelnode and ælfsige.

Ego oswald ergo christi crismate presul dominicæ incarnationis anno DCCCC . LXIII . annuente rege Anglorum Eadgaro ælferewue merciorum comite nec non et familiae wiogernensis aecclesie . quandam ruris particulam unam videlicet mansam in loco qui celebri a soliculis nuncupatur æt heortford uocabulo cuidam ministro meo nomine æþelnoð perpetua largitus hereditate et, post vite sue terminum . ii . tantum heredibus immunem derelinquat quibus defunctis æcclesie dei in weogerna ceastre restituatur. ðis synd þa land gemæro þære are hidæ into heortforde . of stanforda up on mærse slæd. of mæres slæde upon þon cæstello easteweardre. of þan cæstello on colomores sic neoþeweardre. of colomores sice upon burghæmaweg. ondlang þæs weges on þone litlan beorh þonne swa andlang furu þæt on þa healdan stige. ondlang stige þæt forð on ælfrices gemæro þon andlang hricweges on þa ea æt þære ealdan mylne hid þe oswold bisceop bocað æþelnoðe his þegne þreora manna dæg on þa gerad wyrce þæt he wyrce þæt þæt land sio unforworht.

Scripta est haec cartula his testibus consentientibus quorum inferius notantur nomina.

Ego wulfric presbyter.

Ego wulfric presbyter.             Ego eadgar diaconus.

Ego ælfric presbyter.               Ego ælfred clericus.

Ego wulfhun clericus.              Ego byrstan clericus.

Ego cynsige clericus.               Ego wulfgar clericus.

Ego cynstan clericus.              Ego æþelwold clericus.

Ego cyneþegn clericus.           Ego wulfeah clericus.

Ego wynstan clericus.             Ego æþelstan cirdward.