29
S 1505

Will of Æthelwold. [after A.D. 987]

Archive: Winchester, New Minster

TEXT

Ðis is Aþelwoldis cwyde. þæt is ærest þæt he bitt his cynehlaford for Godes lufon 7 for his cynescipe þæt his cwyde standen mote on þæm þingon þe he æt þe gegearnod hæfþ 7 æt þinum foregengan. þæt is ærest þæt he gean for his sawle .xx. mancusas goldes into niwan menstre 7 ane cuppan him to sawelsceatte. 7 .xx. mancusas goldes his gebroþrun into Abbandune. 7 he becwæþ his cynehlaford him to heregeattewan ænne beah on .xxx. mancusas, 7 twa lecga, 7 .ii. hors, 7 .ii. sweord, 7 .ii. scyldas, 7 twa speru. 7 he becweæþ his wife þa .x. hida æt Maningforda þa hwile þe hire dæg wære, 7 aftær hire dæge into niwan mynstre for heora begra sawle. 7 he hire becwæþ .xxx. mancusas goldes 7 ane cuppan. 7 ic gean minum suna anre hide landes æt Uptune 7 anre lecge. 7 ic gean þæm ealdermen anre crusnan 7 ic gean Leofwine oþere crusnan.

Edition: Charters of the New Minster, Winchester, ed. Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxon Charters 9 (Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2001), pp. 137-8 (no. 29).