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Ine, king of the West Saxons, restores forty-five hides (cassati) at Bradfield, Bestlesford (Basildon) and Streatley, Berkshire, to Hæha, patricius, and Ceolswith, for the construction of a monastery. [? A.D. 688 x 690]

Archive: Abingdon

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Ego Ini rex Westsaxonum pro anime mee remedio reddidi terram .xlv. cassatorum Hean patricio et Ceolswiðe ad monasterium construendum. Que terra appellatur in Bradanfelda et Bestlesfelda et alia que nominatur Stretlea, cum omnibus ad se pertinentibus. Cui donationi testes affuerant Ebba, Æthilbald et Eadfrith filius Iddi, et cum iussione episcoporum Cedde, Germani, Winfridi. Quam terram primus dederat Eadfrith filius Iddi super altare in =cclesia que ibi constructa est pro anima eius. Ego Theodorus seruus Dei archiepiscopus consensi et subscripsi.

Edition: Charters of Abingdon Abbey, Part 1, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 7 (Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2000), p. 3 (no. 1).