159
S 1222

Thored grants land at East Horsley, Surrey, to Christ Church, Canterbury. [? A.D. 1036, for ?1017 x 1035]

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

TEXT

+ Ic Þored geann þæt land æt Horslege þam hirede æt Cristes cyrcean for mine sawle swa full 7 swa forð swa ic sylf hit ahte.

Edition: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters (The British Academy, forthcoming), no. 159. For apparatus criticus and a detailed commentary see this edition.

TRANSLATION

I, Thored, grant the land at Horsley to the community at Christ Church, for the sake of my soul, as fully and to the same extent as I myself owned it.

Translation: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters (The British Academy, forthcoming), no. 159.

159A
S 1222

Elaborated Latin version of 159.

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

TEXT

[A]nno dominice incarnationis millesimo .xxxvi. Ego Thored instinctu Dei, consenciente et concedente domino meo rege Cnutone, concessi ecclesie Christi que sita est in Dorobernia, ad opus et uictum monachorum in eadem ecclesia Deo seruiencium, uillam meam nomine Horslege, liberam ab omni seculari seruitute, exceptis expedicione, pontis et arcis construccione.

Edition: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters (The British Academy, forthcoming), no. 159A. For apparatus criticus and a detailed commentary see this edition.