THE BISHOPRIC OF CORNWALL. 193 



manumission by Duke Ethelwerd at the Monastery of S. Petrock's, 

 Bodmin. * 



A Charter of King Ethelred, and two of Canute, bear Biirh- 

 wold's signature. 



The first of these, dated 1016, and purporting to be a grant 

 by King Ethelred to the Abbey of Evesham, is signed, among 

 others, by Eadnod, Bishop of Crediton, and by Burhwold, as fol- 

 lows : — 



" ^ Ego Buruhwoldus Episcopus consensi."t 



One of the Charters of Canute, dated 1019, is a grant of land 

 to one Agemund, with the following among other signatures : — 



"Ego Buruh wold Episcopus non renui ^." J 



By another Charter, dated 1018, || Canute grants to his "most 



Eamsey (Huntingdonshire), in 993, on the authority of a Charter of that 

 date, with the following signature, " Ego Germanus Ram. Abb." — {Cod. Dip., 

 No. 684). Dugdale gives no such name among the Abbots of Eamsey, and 

 on the contrary -affirms that Ednod was Abbot from 992 to 1008, and Wulsius 

 after him. 



* The following is the entry referred to : — 



" ^ Hoc est nomen illius mulieris ^Ifgyth, quam liberavit Mth.elS.sed., 

 pro anima sua, et pro anima domini sui JSthelwerd Dux, super cimbalum 

 Sancti Petroci, in villa que nominatur Lyscerruyt, coram istis testibus 

 videntibus: ^thaestan, Presbiter; Wine, Presbiter; Dunstan, Presbiter; 

 Goda, Minister; jElfwerd Sci^ylocc; ^Ethelwine muf; Ealdred fratre ejus; 

 Eadsige, Scriptor : et hii sunt testes ex cleri. Sancti Petroci : Prudens, 

 Presbiter ; Boia, .... frice, Diaconus ; Bryhsige, Clericus ; ut libertatem 



Et postea venit ^Ethelwaard Dux ad Monasterium Saneti Petroci, et 

 liberavit earn, pro anima sua, super Altare Sancti Petroci, coram istis testibua 

 videntibus : Buruhwold, Bisceop ; Germanus, Abbas ; Tittherd, Presbiter | 

 Wulsige, Diaconus ; Wurgent, filius Samuel ; Yloasrthon, Propositus ; Teth- 

 ion. Consul ; . . . . filius Mor. Et ijise adfirmavit, ut quicumque custodierit 

 hanc libertatem, benedictus sit, et quicumque fregerit, anathema sit a Domino 

 Deo cell et ab angelis Ejus. Amen." — B. M., No. 20. 



There was a double Manumission, first at Liskeard, and then at Bod- 

 min ; showing that the manumission of a slave was not complete without 

 the confirmation of the lord (dominus) of the enfranchising person. 



f Kemble, Cod. Dip., No. 723. 



+ Kemble, Cod. Dip., No. 730. 



II Kemble, Cod. Dip., No. 728. 



