Record # 3 (Sawyer 1280, dated 904)

 

[Cotton Nero E. i, pt. 2, fo. 182r]

 

ĘŠEREDES GERĘDNESSE AND AEŠELFLEDE WIŠ WERFRIŠ . BISCEOP

OMNIBVS NAMQVE SAPIENTIBVS NOTVM AC MANIFESTVM CONstat . quod dicta hominum uel facta pro multiplicibus criminum perturbationibus et cogitationum uagationibus frequenter ex memoria recedunt nisi litterarum apicibus et custodię cautela scripturarum reseruentur et ad memoriam reuocentur . Quamobrem Anno dominicę incarnationis dccocc . iioii . indictione . i . has ob memoriam posteritatis litteras scribere iussimus . Žęt is žonne žęt werfriš bisceop and se hired ęt wigraceastre syllaš and gewritaš ęželrede and ęželflęde heora hlafordum žonę hagan binnan byri ęt wigraceastre . se is fram žęre ea sylfre bi žęm norš walle eastwardes . xxviii . roda lang . and žonon sužwardes . xx . iiii . roda brad . and eft žonon westwardes on sęferne . xix . roda long . and eac hi syllaš him žęt medweland bewestan sęferne on efen žone hagan . andlang žęs bisceopes dic of žęre ea žęt hit cymš west ut on žęt mordic . and swa norš žęt hit cymš ut efen žęt gelad . and swa eftwardes žęt hit cymš eft wišneožan žęt gelad on sęferne . Eac hi syllaš him . beferburnan . and eac žęrto . lx . ęcera earšlondes besužan beferburnan . and ožre . lx . benoršan . and ec swyže rumedlice . xii . ęceras žęrto fulgodes mędlandes and eall hi syllaš žiss [sic] heom mid milde mode . and wilniaš him to žęt hi syn eigšer ge hlafordes freond ge žara hina . ge žęre cyrcan . and hig his wyllaš alning hieom toearmen dęges and nihtes mid heora godcundnesse . swa hi betst magon . and hi hit habban a ge binnan byrig ge butan unbesacen wiš ęlce hand ža hwyle že hi lifgean . and gif ęlfw leug sy . žonne sy hit swa unbesacen ža hwile že heo lifige . and ofer heora žreora dęig . agefe hit mon eft žęre circean hlaforde . swa gegodad swa hit žonne sy . for heora žreora sawle . buton ęlcum geflite . gif god wile žęt hig hit godian motan . Augentibus et custodientibus retributio ęternę beatitudinis augeatur in cęlo . minuentes et frangentes sempiterna increpatione redarguantur . nisi prius digna satisfactione emendauerint . žas gerędnesse eall se hired ge iunge ge ealde mid cristes rode tacne gefęstnodon . and žara . xii . noman her standaš awritene bęftan . and eac žara freonda noman že we us to gewitnesse curon .  Ęželred aldorman and ęželflęd myrcna hlafordas mid us hit geWRITON .

Ego werfriš episcopus propria manu consensi et corroboro .

Ego kinelm abbas .                  Ego ecgfriš presbyter consensi .

Ego wiglaf presbyter .             Ego oslac presbyter .

Ego cinaš diaconus .               Bernhelm .                   Eardwulfus .

Wlfred .                                   Ceolhelm .                   Wllaf .

Alhmund .                               Edgar bisceop .           Aldred .

Ęželfriš ealdormann .            Ęlfred .                       Ęlfstan .

Eadric .                                    Wlfhun .                      Ęžeredes gerędness and ęželflęde wiš werfriš bisceop and wiž žone hired on wegernaceaster.