Two Manumissions in 10th Century Bedwyn

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Farmers labouring in a field in 14th century feudalist France. The image is on folio 10 verso of the illustrated manuscript Très Riches Heurs du duc de Berry and taken from a digital creative commons reproduction of Wikimedia Commons (commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Les_Très_Riches_Heures_du_duc_de_Berry_octobre_detail.jpg).

La transcription est:

her cyþ þæt eadƿine geuþe ƿynsige and aþelnoþe
his men þæt he moste adon byrhtgyþe ut of
þam geburlande mid tyn mancusson fær-
frige on ælc land þa ælfsige folgaþ hæfde and
ƿynstan ƿæs his gingra on hyra geƿitnesse and
on ælfhehes mæssepreostes and on æþeldryþe
þære nunnan and on titsiges and on tretiges and on eal-
ra þara godes þeoƿa æt bedeƿindan and on ceol-
byrhtes suna geƿitnesse sigestanes and æþelsta[nes]
and on ealles þæs folces –
Traduction:

Here, it is made known that Eadwine allowed Wynsige and Athelnoth, his man [i.e. one of his men], that he may remove Byrthgyth out of gebur-land for ten mancuses, free to go to any region where Ælfsige had authority and [where] Wynstan was his vassal.

In the witness of them, and of Ælfheah, the mass-priest, and of Ætheldryth, the nun, and of Titsige, and of Tretige, and of all the servants of God at Bedwyn, and in the witness of Ceolbyrht’s sons, Sigestan and Æthelstan, and of all the people.