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2Her swutelað on ðissum gewrite þæt æþelstan bisceop
3gebohte æt Leofrice æt Blacewellan fif hide
4landes æt Intebyrgan be æþelredes cynges leafe & be
5ælfeges arcebisceopes gewitnesse & be
6Wulfstanes Arcebisceopes & be ealra þæra witena þe ða on
7Englalande lifes wæron mid ten pundan reodes
8goldes & hwites seolfres unforboden & unbesacan to geofene
9& to syllanne ær dæge & æfter dæge
10sibban oððe fremdan þær him leofost wære.
11& Se cyng het þone arcebisceop Wulfstan þærto boc settan &
12æþelstane bisceope boc & land betæcan
13unnendere heortan.
14þa æfter þysan manegum gearum soc Wulfstan & his sunu
15Wulfric on sum þæt land þa ferde se bisceop
16to sciregemote to Wigeranceastre & draf þær his spræce.
17þa sealde Leofwine ealdorman & Hacun & Leofric & eal seo
18scir his land clæne þa he hit unforbodan
19& unbesacan bohte & settan dæg to þæt man to ðam lande
20scolde faran & þa ilcan þe him ær landgemære
21læddon hit .
22& cwædan gif ða landgemære ealswa wæron swa man heo on
23fruman lædde þæt se bisceop þæt land fulriht
24ahte.
25þa com se bisceop þærto & se þe him land sealde & þa þe
26him ær to gewitnesse wæron.
27& com Wulfstan & his sunu & þa þe hyra geferan wæron.
28& heo ealle þa þa landgemære geridan eal swa heo man on
29fruman þam bisceope lædde.
30& heo ealle cwædan þe þær æt wæron þæt se bisceop
31fulriht þæt land ahte.
32þa se þær geanwyrde wæs þe him land sealde.
33Spæcon ða Leofrices freond & Wulfstanes freond þæt hit
34betere wære þæt heora seht togædere wurde
35þonne hy ænige sace hym betweonan heoldan.
36Worhtan þa hyra seht, þæt wæs þæt Leofric sealde
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38pund & twegra þegna að &
39wære himsylf þridde þæt he on þam ilcan wolde beon
40gehealden gif seo spæc to Leofrice eode swa swa
41heo þa wæs to Wulfstane gegan.
42þis wæs ure ealra seht.
43Wulfstan & his sunu sealdon þa þæt land clæne Leofrice.
44& Leofric & Wulfstan & Wulfric þam bisceope clæne land &
45unbesacan ær dæge & æfter to gyfanne þær
46him leofost wære.
47Her swutelað seo gewitnes & se borh þe þær æt wæron,
48þæt wæs ærest se bisceop & Leofric & Wulfstan
49& Brihtwine & Cynsig & Wynstan & ægelwig munuc & ælwine
50mæssepreost & ælmær mæssepreost & Wulfric
51mæssepreost & Cyneword æt Pebbewurðy & ælewig & Eadwig his
52mæg & Wulfric æt Cloddesheale & Sæword æt
53Uptuny & Wulfric æt Bynningtune & Wulfsig Madding & mænig
54god cniht toeacan þysan.
55Nu syndan þissa gewrita þreo, an on Wigernaceastre æt
56Sancta Marian þær þæt land toherð & oðer on
57Hereforda æt Sancte æþelbrihte & þridde a mid þam þe
58þæt land on hande stande.
59God ælmihtig þone gehealde þe þis wille rihtlice healdan.
60& gif ænig man þonne seo þe þis awendan wille God
61ælmihtig & Sancta Maria & ealle his leofan halgan
62þæne aniðerige ægþær ge her on life ge þær he
63længast wunian sceal buton he hit þe deoppor ær
64gebete swa bisceop him tæce.