Byrhstan. Pulfpyn coniunx. episcopus. Rodbertus. Jordanis . Æðelidis . Simon. Leofric1. Beorn. Kyrold. Ælfflæd coniunx ejus. Radulfus. Henricus. Gaufridus . Briccius. Eadpine. Spot. Ælfpig. sacerdos. Ælfperd. sacerdos. 5 Eadric langa & eius coniunx Pulfgyfu. Brihtnoð. Kyppyne. Ælfric. munuc . 2 Ealdred. Alfuuoldes sunu. Ægelhild his uuif.. Alexander. Gunterius. Atheloza. Teoscelinus. Brihtuuinus laicus. Mainon clericus. Regnoldus. Gyde coniunx eius. Lyfinge. Piburh . coniunx eius. Leofstan. Eadgiuu3 fili Godpini comitis . Eadpeard. rex . Eadgar. clito. Herbertus monachus 7 sacerdos. Leofpine. Ægelyuu. Brihtric & eius coniunx Brihtgyfu. Budda & eius coniunx Eadgyfu. 1 Leofric, Bishop of Crediton A.D. 1046, and of Exeter A.D. 1050-1070, is probably intended. Hægelhild originally, but the initial H has been erased, MS. Not in the usual genealogical tables. 4 Edward the Confessor, King A.D. 1042—1066. "His Queen Edith, daughter of Earl Godwine, married in A.D. 1044. Edgar Atheling (son of Edmund, son of Edmund Ironside, who died in A.D. 1057). He claimed the throne of England in A. D. 1066. 30 Gaufridus pincerna regis. & Le . . . . uxor eius. & 1 These in red letters at the top of the page. These remaining names are written in various handwritings along the upper margin, down the spaces left among the double columns, and along the lower margin of the page. They are of the eleventh, and some perhaps of the early twelfth century. 3 Perhaps the celebrated Leofric and Godiva, Earl and Countess of Mercia. The interlineation is difficult to explain. 15 20 25 Turstegen. Alwinus. Kypingus. Editha. Ailmerus. 5 Herdingus. Eudo. medicus. Huskarl. Hugo filius Baldri. Wulfricus. Wulfgyfe coniunx eius. Vruog. Iudith coniun[x] e[ius] necnon patres & matres 10 il[lorum]. Herebertus laicus & Odelina eius coniunx. Gosfrithus laicus & eius coniunx. Gosfrithus. Waerinus & Ingrith. eius coniunx. Gotselin. & Ealdgið. coniunx eius. Ricardus. Langheliua. 30 Otildis. sanctimonialis . Albericuus. et coniunx eius. necnon filii & filię. Edmundus. Matildis. Galfridus. Willelmus filius. Gurhandi. & Hugo frater eius. Atselinus. Gersent coniunx eius. Ricardus. Aduenia coniunx eius. Walterus. Teotselinus laicus. '7 eius coniunx Ealdgida'. & Folcuuinus eius pater. Godpine Great seod. 7 Wendelburh eius ux[or .] Geruasius. Willelmus. Amabilia. Galfridus. Brito. Willelmus. Escebriht1. & eius uxor. & filii . & filię eius. Brunman. Johannes 3. Willelmus. Hugo. Ph[ilippus]. 1 Below this another line of names, almost entirely cut away by the binder. 3 These in a late thirteenth century hand near the right hand top corner of the page, very indistinct. 5 ΤΟ 15 p. 48.] [WILL OF KIng Alfred the Great.] Ic Ælfred cingc mid Godes gife. 7 mid ge peahtunge Æperedes erce bisceopes ealra pest seaxena pitena ge pitnesse smeade ymbe minre saple pearfe. J 1 Introduced into the manuscript on account of the connection of Alfred with Hyde, or Newminster, looked upon by some as founder and benefactor of the monastery. The collations at foot are with :— [A.] Stowe MS. 960, p. 48. Ordn. Surv. Facs. of A.-Sax. MSS., pt. III. [B.] Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, No. 553, from [A.] [B.] Liber de Hyda, ed. E. Edwards, pp. 52, 62; from a MS. in the possession of the Earl of Macclesfield at Shirburn Castle, Oxon. MS. Lansd. 717, f. (Late transcript.) [M.] The Will of King Alfred, ed. O. Manning, 4to., Oxon, 1788; from [A.] [M. 2.] Reprint of [M.], 8vo., Lond., 1828. 2 Goddes gyfe, H. ob. 30th June, 889. 3 Ethelred, Archbishop of Canterbury, A.D. 870, 4 Gewittenesse, H. 14 12 ymbe min yrfe þæt me God y mine1 yldran for geafon . Jymbeþyrfe pæt Aðulf cingc2 min fæder us prim ge broðrum be cpæd Apelbolde' 7 Æderede me. J spylc ure spylce' lengest pære þæt se fenge to callum. Ac hit ge lamp þæt Æpelbold ge fór. 7 pyt Æpered 5 mid ealre 10 pest seaxena pitena 11 ge pitnesse 13 uncerne 18 dæl oð fæstan 1 Epelbyrhte 15 cingce uncrum mæge on þa ge rædene pe he hit eft ge dyde unc spa ge pylde spa hit pa pas pa pit hit him oð fæstan 14 y he þa spa dyde ge þæt yrfe ge 16 he mid uncre ge manan 17 begeat þæt 10 he sylf ge strynde. þa hit spa ge lamp Æpered to feng 18 pa bæd ic hine be foran urum pitum eallum þ pyt Þyrfe ge dældon J he me ageafe minne dæl. þa sæde he me þ he naht eaðe ne mihte to dælan for pon he hæfde ful oft ær onge fangen. he cpæð1o þæs pe he on uncrum 15 ge manan ge bruce ge strynde æfter his dæge he nanum [K.] Kemble, Cod. Dipl., No. CCXIV; from [M.] [W.] R. Pauli, The Life of K. Alfred, ed. T. Wright, 1852, p. 408; from [K.] [T.] Thorpe, Dipl., p. 484; from [M.] EARLY ENGLISH TRANSLATION. [H. 2.] Liber de Hyda, pp. 54, 67. Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, No. 554; from [H. 2.] MODERN ENGLISH TRANSLATIONS. Manning, ut supra. Giles, K. Alfred's Works, vol. i, p. 398. Thorpe, ut supra. Liber de Hyda, pp. 327, et seq. LATIN TRANSLATIONS. [H. 3.] Liber de Hyda, pp. 57, 71. Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, No. 555; from Liber de Hyda. [C.] Angl. Hib. Scriptores, ed. Camden, p. 22; probably from [H. 3], with occasional variations. [W.] Asser, Vita Regis Ælfredi, ed. Wise; from [H. 3.] [K. 2.] Kemble, Cod. Dipl., No. MLXVII; from [C.] [M. 3.] Manning, ut supra; a modern translation with criticisms on [H. 3.] 1 Min, H. Ath., H. Etc. 2 Cinge, H. 6 Etherede, H. [ ic], added, M. 13 Uncurne, H. Etc. Etc. 10 Ealra, K. T. 17 Uncrum gemanum, H. 11 Wytena, H. 18 Fenge, H. |