Great Britain -- History -- Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066 -- Sources
And let the aforesaid land with all things thereto rightly pertaining,
fields, pastures, meadows, woods, and woodland groves be free from every
worldly hindrance except these three, the fyrd, and bridge-work, and
fortress-work. But if anyone shall try (what we do not desire) to
infringe this our grant, entering thereupon through self-exaltation, may
he endure the cold blasts of ice and the Pennine[2] troop of evil
spirits unless he first make amends with the tearful sighs of repentance
and by pure reform. These are the boundaries by which the aforesaid land
is surrounded. These are the land boundaries at oswalding tun: first
ælfgyth’s boundary on the east up to teting ford; then from there west
up to done; then from there up to eadgifu’s boundary; then from there to
the bishop’s boundary at cirring; from cirring north thence to emecing
mere; to oswalding tun pertain holly hurst, and byrhttring den, and
eoreding den, and liccing den, and hereferth’s lea, and dynning den, and
cyrthring hurst, and trip hurst and insnadis into oswalding tun; and the
meadow at brunes ford and the meadow at bee brook pertain to oswalding
tun.
Footnote 2:
Meaning either feathered, or, belonging to the Great St. Bernard Pass
in the Pennine Alps, over which the writer had probably passed on a
journey to Rome.
This aforesaid donation was completed in the year from the Incarnation
of our Lord Jesus Christ DCCCCXL, Indiction XIII.
✠ I Eadmund king of the Angles have confirmed the aforesaid donation
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with the sign of the holy cross.
✠ I Wulfhelm archbishop of the church of Canterbury have signed the
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donation of the king with the mark of the holy cross.
✠ I Eadred the king’s brother have signed.
✠ I Theodred bishop of the church of London have signed.
✠ I Ælfheah bishop of the church of Winchester have made the triumphant
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mark of the holy cross.
✠ I Cenwald bishop have assented to the aforesaid gift.
✠ I Oda bishop have confirmed.
✠ I Ælfric bishop have signed.
✠ I Wulfhun bishop have assented.
✠ I Wulfhelm bishop have signed.
✠ I Burgric bishop have assented.
✠ I Æthelgar bishop have corroborated.
✠ Ælfhere earl.
✠ Wulfgar earl.
✠ Æthelstan earl.
✠ Uhtred earl.
✠ Orda thegn.
✠ Ælfric thegn.
✠ Eadmund thegn.
✠ Wulfsige thegn.
✠ Wullaf thegn.
✠ Ordeah thegn.
✠ Eadric thegn.
✠ Ealhelm thegn.
✠ Ælfsige thegn.
✠ Æthered thegn.
✠ Athelmund thegn.
✠ Wulfhelm thegn.
✠ Wulfheah thegn.
✠ Wulfsige thegn.
✠ Wihtgar thegn.
✠ Æthelwold thegn.
✠ Ælfred thegn.
✠ Wulfgar thegn.
✠ Ælfsige thegn.
✠ Wulfnoth thegn.
✠ Æthelstan thegn.
✠ Æthelsige thegn.
✠ Eanulf thegn.
_On the back_: ✠ This is Oswalding tun’s boc which Eadmund the king
booked to Æthelswith as a perpetual heritage.
DUNSTAN IS MADE ABBOT OF GLASTONBURY BY KING EDMUND (946).
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