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S 1281

A.D. 904. Wærferth, bishop, with the Worcester community, to Wulfsige, his reeve; lease, for three lives, of 1 hide at Aston Magna, Gloucs., just as Herred held it. English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19791 (s. x 1; BM Facs., iii. 2; Keller 1906, no. 4; Morgan 1876, opp. p. 192; Pal. Soc., ser. i. 13; Thompson 1912, facs. 222)

Printed:

Sweet, Second Reader, pp. 220-1 (no. 30) ; B, 609 ; Earle, pp. 161-2

Comments:

Robinson 1923, p. 38, on a witness ; Wilson 1959, pp. 301-2, on language ; Chaplais 1968, p. 315 n. 3, one of earliest original chirographs now extant (= 1973, p. 63 n. 3) ; Finberg 1972, p. 485, cited ; Dumville 1987, p. 157 n. 52, cited with reference to script ; Dumville 1992, p. 92 n. 182, cited with reference to script ; Faith 1997, pp. 171, 173, with map ; Dumville 2003, on identity of witness named Cynath ; Thompson 2006, p. 70, on script ; BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary ; Taylor 1894a, p. 291 ; Robertson, Charters, p. 294, estate was at White Ladies Aston ; Sisam 1953a, p. 311 n. 2, original ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 90, authentic, identifies as Aston Magna

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