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S 1195

(a) Ealhburh and Eadweald grant an annual food-rent from their estate at Burnan to Christ Church, Canterbury.
(b) Ealhhere commands Ealawynn, his daughter, to pay an annual rent from three sulungs at Finglesham, Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury. [c. A.D. 850]

Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church

(a)
+ Ðis sindan geðinga Ealhburge 7 Eadwealdes et ðæm lande et Burnan hwet man elce gere ob ðem lande to Cristes cirican ðem hiwum agiaban scel for Ealhburge 7 for Ealdred 7 fore Eadweald 7 Ealawynne .xl. ambra mealtes 7 xl. 7 cc. hlaba .i. wege cesa .i. wege speces .i. eald hriðer .iiii. weðras .x. goes .xx henfugla .iiii. foðra weada 7 ic Ealhburg bebiade Eadwealde minem mege an Godes naman 7 an ealra his haligra ðet he ðis wel healde his dei 7 siððan forð bebeode his erbum to healdenne ða hwile ðe hit Cristen se + 7 suelc mon se ðet lond hebbe eghwylce sunnandege .xx. gesuflra hlafa to ðare cirican for Ealdredes saule 7 for Ealhburge.

(b)
+ Ðis is sia elmesse ðe Ealhhere bebead Ealawynne his doehter et Ðenglesham et .iii. sulungum elce gere .c. pen' to Cristes cirican ðem higum 7 suelc man se ðisses landes bruce agebe ðis fiah an Godes gewitnesse 7 an ealra his haligra 7 suilc man sue hit awege ðonne se hit on his sawale nas on ðes ðe hit don het.

Edition: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters (The British Academy, forthcoming), no. 79. For apparatus criticus and a detailed commentary see this edition.

(a)
This is the agreement of Ealhburg and Eadweald about the estate at Bourne: what is to be delivered each year from the estate to the community at Christ Church for the sake of Ealhburg and of Ealdred and of Eadweald and of Ealawynn: forty ambers of malt, 240 loaves, a wey of cheese, a wey of lard, a mature bullock, four wethers, ten geese, twenty hens and four 'fothers' of wood. And I Ealhburg instruct my kinsman Eadweald in the name of God and all his saints that he observe this fully in his day, and thereafter instruct his heirs to observe it for as long as Christianity shall be. + And whoever may have the land [is to pay] twenty gesufl loaves to the church each Sunday for the souls of Ealdred and Ealhburg.

(b)
This is the almsgiving that Ealhhere enjoined upon his daughter Ealawyn from Finglesham [to render] from the three sulungs each year: 100 pence to the community at Christ Church. And whoever has the use of this estate is to deliver this fee in the witness of God and of all his saints, and whoever neglects this, then let it be on his soul, and not on his who ordered it to be done.

Translations: Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury, ed. N. P. Brooks and S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters (The British Academy, forthcoming), no. 79.