The Anglo-Saxon Chancery Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- list of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Key Events between the Accession of Alfred and the Death of Edgar
- Introduction
- 1 Brave New World: The Charters of Alfred and Edward
- 2 Æthelstan
- 3 ‘Æthelstan A’
- 4 Turbulent Priests: Dunstan, Cenwald and Oda
- 5 Back to the Future: Edgar and ‘Edgar A’
- Conclusion
- Appendix I S 193
- Appendix II S 346
- Appendix III S 225
- Bibliography
- Index of charters
- Index
Appendix III - S 225
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 May 2015
- Frontmatter
- Epigraph
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- list of Abbreviations
- Timeline of Key Events between the Accession of Alfred and the Death of Edgar
- Introduction
- 1 Brave New World: The Charters of Alfred and Edward
- 2 Æthelstan
- 3 ‘Æthelstan A’
- 4 Turbulent Priests: Dunstan, Cenwald and Oda
- 5 Back to the Future: Edgar and ‘Edgar A’
- Conclusion
- Appendix I S 193
- Appendix II S 346
- Appendix III S 225
- Bibliography
- Index of charters
- Index
Summary
S 225 was composed in 915 (although the extant copy, which dates from the thirteenth century, records the date as 878) and preserved at Abingdon. The text below is drawn from Kelly, Abingdon.
Regnante Christo mediatore nostro, filio Dei et saluatore mundi, qui sceptra regit et alta tociusque telluris orbem post opere et umbratione conceptioneque sancti spiritus ex sacratissimo prosiliens uirginis aluo, cuius imperio cuncta obtemperant celestia, tremuntque terrestria et formidant infernalia. huius gloriosissime incarnationis anno. dccclxxviii., ego Æþelfled, iuuante superna pietate et largiente clementia Christi gubernacula regens Merciorum, cum consilio episcoporum optimatumque meorum, dedi licentiam eadrice meo ministro comparandi terram. x. manentium æt Fernbeorgen, sibi suisque heredibus perpetualiter possidendam. Terram quidem hanc ego eadric placibili pecunia comparaui æt Wullufe, liberam ab omnibus tributis, notis uel ignotis, nisi expeditione et arcis construccione et singulare precium contra aliud. Terram uero hanc Offa rex Merciorum tradidit Bynnan, abauo Wullafi, et litteris consignauit. Casu quidem contigit anno eclypsi solis perdicio prioris libri. nunc autem nostra licentia et confirmatione anticus prescribitur liber. Si causa alicuius rei inueniatur, igne cremetur. Karaxata est autem cartula huius donationis et confirma - tionis anno diuine incarnationis sicut supra inuenitur, et die. v. idus Septembris, in loco qui dicitur Weardburg. Hoc autem seruantibus prosperitas, uita, salus; minuentibus uero et frangentibus mors, pena et perdicio. Nomina uero huius confirmationis et testimonii hic infra nitescunt.
+ Ego Æþelfled hanc meam licentiam confirmo signaculo sancte crucis.
+ Ego Ælfwyn episcopus consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Ælfwine episcopus consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Æþelhun episcopus consensi et subscripsi.
+ ego eadgar consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Ælfred episcopus consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Æþelferd dux consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Ælfred dux consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Æþelhun abbas consensi et subscripsi.
+ ego ecgberht abbas consensi et subscripsi.
+ ego Cynað abbas consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Wihtred consensi et subscripsi.
+ ego Berhsige consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Æþelnaþ consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Æþelward consensi et subscripsi.
+ Ego Ælfstan consensi et subscripsi.
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- The Anglo-Saxon ChanceryThe History, Language and Production of Anglo-Saxon Charters from Alfred to Edgar, pp. 199 - 200Publisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2015