A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to Eynsham Abbey; confirmation of the foundation by Æthelmær, the endowment including (a) 30 hides (mansiunculae) at Eynsham [acquired from his father Æthelweard in exchange for 3 hides at Upottery, Devon; 10 at Little Compton, Warwicks.; 10 at Lawling in Latchingdon, Essex; and 13 at Scildforda]; (b) 5 hides at Shipton-on-Cherwell and the vill at Shifford, Oxon [granted by King Edgar to Brihtnoth, dux, and bequeathed by Leofwine to Æthelmær]; (c) Mickleton, Gloucs. [granted by charter by King Edgar to Brihtnoth, and bequeathed by Brihtnoth to Æthelmær]; (d) 5 hides at Burton [given to Æthelmær by Æthelweard]; (e) 1.5 hides at Marlcliff in Bidford-on-Avon and 2 at Bentley in Holt, Worcs. [among lands forfeited by Leoftæt, for which Æthelmær gave 30 pounds to King Edgar]; (f) 10 hides at Yarnton, Oxon. [acquired from Godwine, in exchange for 5 hides at Studley, Warwicks. or Oxon., and 10 at Chesterton, Warwicks. or Oxon.]; (g) 20 hides at Esher, Surrey [granted by Brihthelm, bishop, to Æthelweard, and bequeathed by Æthelweard to his son, Æthelmær]; (h) land at Thames Ditton, Surrey (cf. S 847); and (i) Rameslege (lost, corresponds with Brede, Sussex) [bequeathed to Eynsham by Wulfin (Wulfwyn), Æthelmær's kinswoman]. Latin with English and English bounds

Archive:

Eynsham

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 225*-227 (s. xvi)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A. VIII, ff. 131r-132v (s. xvi)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XV, f. 7r-v (s. xvi; incomplete)
4. London, British Library, Harley 258, ff. 1r-3r (s. xvii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 321, pp. 58-59 (s. xvi; no bounds)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), ff. 58r-60v (s. xvii; no bounds)
7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 55 (S.C. 4197), ff. 9v-11v (s. xvii; no bounds)
8. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), ff. 13r-15r (s. xvii; no bounds; ex 2)
9. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 21 (S.C. 6511), ff. 1r-3r (s. xvii)
10. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 8 (S.C. 3845), pp. 7-8 (s. xvii; incomplete)
11. Oxford, Christ Church, Chapter Library, 'Eynsham Cartulary', ff. 7r-9v (s. xii ex.; reproduction of 9r in Salter, Eynsham Cart., i, facing p. xxxii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 258-62; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., plate at p. 144, fig. D, part only; K, 714, ex Mon. Angl; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 11-13 (no. 1); Thorpe, p. 299, part only; Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 19-28, ex MS 11; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 78; PN Oxon., ii. 486-7, bounds of Eynsham, Shipton and Shifford

Translated:

Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 19-28, ex MS 11, bounds only

Comments:

Stevenson in Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 20-2; Round in Salter, Eynsham Cart., ii. p. xcviii; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 33-6, on bounds; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 169-72, on bounds of Mickleton; PN Surrey, pp. 90 n., 92 n., on bounds of Esher and Thames Ditton; PN Sussex, ii, pp. vi-vii; PN Warwicks., p. 202 n. 2; Whitelock 1943, p. 123; Robertson, Charters, pp. 386-7; Finberg, ECDC, no. 47; PN Oxon., i. 3, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, 206, ii. 258, 261, 264, 280, 282, 296, 302, 327, 486-7; PN Gloucs., i. 8, 237, 242, 249, 251, 261; Hart, ECEE, pp. 176, 189, partly based on S 792; John 1966, p. 208 n.; Barker 1967, p. 90; Hart, ECE, no. 39, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 551, cited with reference to witnesses; Finberg, ECWM, no. 148 (pp. 66, 125), authentic; HRH, p. 232, probably authentic, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 69, authentic; Gem 1978, p. 112; Gelling, ECTV, no. 290 (pp. 138-9, 162-3), authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 114 n. 103, 260, authentic; Cooper 1985, pp. 18-20, on Shipton bounds, with map p. 17; Wormald 1988, no. 70; Gordon 1990, pp. 4-33, on background; Hooke 1990, pp. 328-9; Hart 1992, p. 132 n. 51; Lawson 1993, p. 240, cited; Blair 1994, pp. 78, 130-3, on Oxon. bounds and topography; Hooke 1994, p. 185; Yorke 1988a, p. 77; Hooke 1999, pp. 115-18, on bounds, with map