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S 1315

A.D. 967. Oswald, bishop of Worcester, to Osulf, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansae) at Bradanbeorh and at Holdfast in Ripple, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric, in exchange for 3 hides at Spetchley, Worcs., leased to the clerici of Worcester, with reversion to the bishopric. Latin with English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 14

Printed:

Smith, Bede, p. 774 ; K, 542, ex Smith etc., cf. no. 1355 ; B, 1204, ex Smith

Comments:

Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary and background to lease ; Hooke 1990, p. 150 ; Bullough 1996, p. 11 ; King 1996, pp. 105 n. 24, 108 ; Wareham 1996, pp. 54-5, 57-8, on beneficiary ; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302 (no. 14), on MS ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 292, authentic

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    • + Anno dominicæ incarnationis dcccc lxvii . Ego Oswold Wiogurnæ urbis antistes duas mansas æt Bradanbeorh 7 æt Holenfesten . germano meo Osulfo . duobusque post se quibus voluerit hæredibus libens impertior . 7 deinde ad usum