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A.D. 704 x 709. Æthelheard and Æthelweard (rulers of the Hwicce) to Cuthswith; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Ingon, Warwicks., in return for 600 shillings. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3v (s. xvii; ex 1)
1. Lost original

Printed:

Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 170, ex 1, cf. pp. 168-9 ; K, 53 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 5) ; B, 122 ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 23

Comments:

Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic ; Chaplais 1968, p. 328, proem is an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola (= 1973, p. 79) ; Cox 1976, p. 23, on place-name ; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 9-10 ; Campbell 1989, p. 23, on sale of land ; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 141 n. 122, 191, genuine ; Lapidge 1993, p. 293 n., probably genuine ; Hooke 1999, p. 17 ; PN Warwicks., p. 233 ; Finberg, ECWM, p. 177 n., on beneficiary, cf. S 53 ; Hart, ECNE, no. 43, authentic

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    • + In nomine Dei summi . Tempora temporibus subeunt , abiit et venit ætas . sola sanctorum gloria durat in Christo . Ideoque ego Ædilheardus et Ædiluueardus dabimus tibi Cudsuidæ terram quæ dicitur Ingin . v manentium quam tu