7 æðerede ealdormenn an sweord on hund teontigum mancusum.
7 þam mannum þe me folgiað. þe ic nu on easter tidum feoh sealde. twa hund punda. agyfe man him. 7 dæle man him betweoh. ælcum swa him togebyrian wille. æfter þære wisan þe ic him nu dælde.
7 þam [1]ercebisceope c. mancusa. 7 [2]esne bisceope. 7 wærferðe bisceope.[3] 7 þam æt scireburnan.[4]
Eac swa gedæle for me. 7 for minne fæder. 7 for þa frynd þe he foreþingode. 7 ic foreþingie. twa hund punda. fiftig mæsse preostum ofer eall min rice. fiftig earmum godes þeowum. fiftig earmum þearfum. fiftig to þære cyrican þe ic æt reste. 7 ic
- ↑ Ethelred Archbishop of Canterbury, who died A°. 888.
- ↑ Esne, Bishop of Hereford; who died, according to Godwin, A°. 885. Indeed Stevens and Willis place him a Century higher. But as a Bishop Esne is here expressly mentioned as a Legatee, and no other of that name occurs in the whole Catalogue of Bishops, it seems a full proof that Godwin is right in the point of Chronology.
- ↑ Werferth was Bishop of Worcester, a Man of singular Learning, and employed by Alfred in translating the Dialogues of Pope Gregory I. into the Saxon language. He died, according to some, A°. 911. according to others, A°. 915.
- ↑ The Bishop of Shirbourn was Asser, the great friend and favorite of Alfred; and who also wrote the Annals of his Reign down to the year 893. He died, according to the most probable accounts, A°. 909, or 910. See Fra. Wise de vita et scriptis Asserii, §. 12. prefixed to his Edition of Asser's Annals of Alfred.
