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7 osferðe [1]minum mæge þone ham æt [2]beccanlea. 7 æt [3]hryðeranfelda. 7 æt [4]dicelingum. 7 æt [5]suðtune. 7 æt [6]lullingmynster. 7 æt [7]angemæringum. 7 æt [8]felhhamme. 7 þa land þe þær to hyran.

7 [9]ealhswiðe þone ham æt lamb burnan. 7 æt waneting.[10] 7 æt eðandune.[11]

7 minum twam sunum an þusend punda. ægðrum fif hund punda.

7 minre yldstan dehter. 7 þære medemestan. 7 þære gingstan. 7 ealhswiðe. him feowrum feower hund punda. ælcum an hund punda.

7 minra ealdormanna[12] ælcum an hund mangcusa.[13] 7 æþelme 7 aðelwolde. 7 osferðe. eac swa.

  1. Who this Osferth his cousin was, I do not find
  2. Beckley,
  3. Rotherfield,
  4. Dichling, all in Sussex.
  5. Sutton,
  6. Lullington,
  7. Angerming,
  8. and Felpham, all in Sussex.
  9. Ethelswitha was the wife of Alfred, and daughter of Ethelred the Great, Earl of Mercia. She survived her husband four years; and, dying A°. 904, was buried in the Nunnery at Winchester of her own foundation.
  10. Lambourn and Wantage in Berks, at the latter of which K. Alfred was born.
  11. Edingdon, near Westbury in Wilts, where Alfred defeated the Danes, A°. 878.
  12. The King's Aldermen were his Justices itinerant and other Great Officers of his own appointment.
  13. The Mancus was about 7s. 6d. of our present currency.