Anglo-Saxon Charters

And he grants to his royal lord the hundred and twenty hides at Worth and the estates at Cookham, Thatcham, Chelworth, Inglesham (?), Aylesbury and Wendover; and three hundred mancuses of gold and a dish of three pounds and a drinking-cup of three pounds and a short sword; and [on] the scabbard (?) there are eight mancuses of gold; and six swords and six horses with trappings and as many spears and shields.

And to Ælfthryth the King's wife, his gefædere, he grants the estate at Shirburn (?) just as it stands; and to the elder Ætheling, the King's son and her's, thirty mancuses of gold and a sword; and to the younger the estate at Walkhampstead. And he grants to his brother Ælfhere the estates at Faringdon and Aldbourn. And to his son Godwine the estate at Tudingtun and Purton (?) to Ælfweard and Wycombe to his kinsman Æthelweard; and Froxfield to his sister's son Ælfwine.

Then to my wife Ælfswith, if she live longer than I and maintains my property in accordance with the confidence I have in her, I grant all the other estates which I leave; and she is to remember God zealously [with almsgiving] from the property, and be zealous for the welfare of our souls. And she is to possess the estate at Batcombe for her time and after her death it is to pass into the possession of our son Ælfweard if he is still alive. If he is not, my brothers are to succeed to it for as long as they live, and after their death it is to go to Glastonbury for the sake of our father and of our mother and of us all.

And I wish that every penally enslaved man be freed on each of the estates which I have bequeathed to my friends.

And the witnesses of this permission which the King has granted to me are: Ælfthryth the King's wife, and Bishop Æthelwold and the Ealdorman Ælfhere and the Ealdorman Æthelwine and Ælfwine and the Abbot Æscwig.