Grant of the Banleuca 945 AD
The reference number S 507 refers to P. H. Sawyer's catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters dated 1968.
S 507
A.D. 945. King Edmund to the monastery at Baederices wirde; grant of privileges in adjacent land. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 5. 40, flyfleaf (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 20r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4., 94r (s. xv)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Mm. 4. 19, 83v-85r (s. xii)
5. Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spenser Research Library, Dpt of Special Collections, E 107 (s. xvii)
6. BL Add. 14847, 27r (s. xiii/xiv)
7. BL Harley 258, 58v-59r (s. xvii)
8. BL Harley 638, 30v-31r (s. xiv)
9. BL Harley 743, 56v-57r (s. xiv)
10. Bodleian, Bodley 297, pp. 327-31 (s. xii)
11. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 145v-146r (s. xvii; incomplete)
12. Bodleian, Dugdale 21, 40v-41r (s. xvii)
13. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 15v-16r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 286-7; K 404 and vol. iii. 423; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn) iii. 137 (no. 4); B 808; Hervey 1907, pp. 588-93, with translation; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 82; Douglas 1932, ii. 340-1, ex MS 10; John of Worcester, pp. 638-9.
Comments: Barker 1949, p. 57, cf. S 501; Lobel 1935, p. 2 n. 7, probably spurious; Zachrisson 1935, no. 9, on identification; Harmer, Writs, p. 144 and n. 1, generally considered spurious; Ker, Catalogue, p. 359 (no. 306), art b, on MS 10; Hart, ECEE, no. 74 (pp. 54-8), may be authentic, discusses bounds; Whitelock 1969, p. 113, probably a genuine base at least, cf. agreements with S 506; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, appears to be a late forgery based on an authentic chancery text, bounds certainly pre-Conquest; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 212, dubious; Gransden 1985, p. 12, cited; Hart 1992, p. 59, authenticity uncertain, pp. 62-6, discusses bounds; Dumville 1993, pp. 35-6, 38, deserves favourable reconsideration; Wormald 1996, p. 123.
Privilegium Ædmundi regis quo libertas ecclesiæ Sancti Ædmundi conceditur et termini terrarum circumjacentium nominanatur .
In nomine sanctæ Trinitatis .
Quamvis decreta pontificum et verba sacerdotum velud fundamenta montium in districtis ligaminibus fixa sunt . tamen plerumque per tempestates et turbines secularium rerum etiam religio sanctæ Dei ecclesiæ maculis reproborum dissipatur ac rumpitur . Idcirco incertum futurorum temporum statum providentes posteris succedentibus profuturum esse decrevimus ut ea quæ communi tractu , salubri consilio diffiniuntur certis literulis roborata confirmentur .
Quapropter ego Ædmundus , rex Anglorum ceterarumque gentium in circuitu persistentium gubernator et rector , ad memoriam revoco gesta antecessorum meorum qui terrenis opibus ecclesias sanctorum ditaverunt , quorum exempla imitatus ad monasterium quod situm est in loco qui dicitur æt Bæderices wirde in quo sanctus Ædmundus rex quiescit corpore , terram quæ circa illum locum esse videtur libenter tribuo ut eternaliter persistat . Eatenus ut illam ejusdem monasterii familia possideat atque suis posteris eadem dictione derelinquat .
Sit autem prædicta terra libera ab omni mundiali obstaculo cum omnibus quæ olim ad ipsum locum pertinere dinoscuntur , tam in magnis quam in modicis rebus , campis , pascuis , pratis , silvis ,
exceptis istis tribus expeditione pontis arcisive coedificatione .
Si quis autem propria temeritate violenter invadere præsumpserit nostram prænotatam donationem sciat se proculdubio ante tribunal districti judicis titubantem tremebundumque rationem redditurum , nisi prius hic digna satisfactione emendare maluerit .
Istis terminis prædicta terra circumgirata videtur.
This sindon tha land gemere the Eadmund king gebocade in to sancte Eadmunde . thonne is thær ærest suth be eahta treowen . 7 thonne up be Alhmundes treowen . 7 swa forth to Osulfes lea . 7 swa forth on gerihte be manige hyllan . 7 thonnen up Hamarlunda . 7 swa forth æfter than we se Lytlantune . 7 thonen ofer tha ea æfter than wege to Bertenedene . 7 swa on gerichte east to Holegate . 7 swa forth an furlang be easten Bromleage 7 thonan suth to niwantune meaduwe .
Acta est hæc præfata donatio anno ab incarnatione domini nostri Jhesu Christi . DCCCC . XLV . Indictione . III .
Ego Ædmundus rex Anglorum præfatam donationem cum sigillo sanctæ crucis + indeclinabiliter confirmavi .
Ego Oda Dorobernensis ecclesiæ archiepiscopus ejusdem regis principatum et benivolentiam cum sigillo sanctæ crucis conclusi .
Ego Theodred Lundoniensis ecclesiæ episcopus corroboravi .
Ego Ælfheh Wintoniensis ecclesiæ episcopus testudinem sanctæ crucis + subscripsi et confirmavi .
Ego Cenwald episcopus prædictum donum concessi .
Ego Ælfric episcopus consignavi .
Ego Ælfred episcopus confirmavi .
Ego Burhric episcopus consensi .
Ego Æthelgar episcopus roboravi .
Ego Æthelwold episcopus consignavi .
Æthelstan dux .
Wulfgar dux .
Æthelwuald dux .
Ealhhelm dux .
Athelmund dux .
Ædmund minister .
Ælfstan minister .
Ælfheh minister .
Æthered minister .
Ælfsige minister .
Ælfgar minister .