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KING ALFRED'S WILL
Ic Ælfred west-seaxena [1] cingc. mid godes gyfe. 7 mid þisse gewitnesse. gecweðe hu ic ymbe min yrfe wille æfter minum dæge.
Ærest ic an Eadweade[2] minum yldran suna þæs landes æt [3]stræt neat on [4]triconscire. 7 [5]heortigtunes. 7 þa bocland ealle þe leof heah hylt. 7 ꝥ land æt carumtune. 7 æðt cylfantune. 7 æt burnhamme. 7 æt wedmor. 7 ic eom fyrmdig to þam hiwum æt ceodre. ꝥ hy hine ceosan on þa gerad þe we ær gecweden hæfdon. mid þam lande æt ciwtune. 7 þam þe þær to hyrað. 7 ic
- ↑ Alfred being King at the time he made his Will, it must have been made between A°. 872, when he came to the Crown, and A°. 885, in which Bishop Esne, one of the Legatees therein mentioned, died.
- ↑ Edward, the eldest son of Alfred, was born a little before his father ascended the throne; and afterwards succeeded him therein, by the name of Edward the Elder.
- ↑ Probably Stratton in Cornwall. See the next Note.
- ↑ I take Tricon-shire to have been, without all doubt, Cornwall: it being but a small Saxon variation from Trig-shire, as it was called by the British inhabitants. See Borlase's Cornish Vocabulary.
- ↑ Perhaps Hardington in Co. Som. as most of the Lands here bequeathed are in that County or Wilts.
