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S 1441
A.D. 896 (Gloucester). Record of an agreement between Wærferth, bishop of Worcester, and Æthelwold concerning woodland at Woodchester, Bisley, Avening, Gloucs.; and at Scorranstone (? Sherston, Wilts.) and Thornbyrig (? Thornbury, Gloucs.) and swine-pasture at Longridge, Gloucs. English with bounds
Archive:
Worcester
MSS:
1.
London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 43r-44r (s. xi 1)
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London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. V, ff. 148-94, f. 169r (s. xvi; ex 1)
Printed:
Hearne, Heming, pp. 93-5 ; K, 1073 ; B, 574 ; Wyatt 1919, pp. 110-11
Comments:
Stenton 1918, p. 242 n. 44, (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 2) ; Watson 1932, p. 208, on bounds ; Wilson 1959, pp. 301-2, on language ; Finberg 1972, p. 515, cited ; Sawyer 1978, pp. 146-7, cited, appears to accept identification with Thornbury, Gloucs ; Hooke 1985, pp. 52, 87, 156, accepts Grundy's identifications ; Wormald 1988, no. 21 ; Whybra 1990, p. 40 ; Cox 1992, on bounds ; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 159, cited with reference to legal background ; Keynes 1998, p. 28 ; Harmer, SEHD, pp. 107-9 ; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 276-8, on suggested identifications for Scorranstone and Thornbyrig ; Ekwall, D.E.P.N., pp. 417, 467, accepts Grundy's identifications ; PN Gloucs., i. 98, 102, 103, 116 ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 85, authentic, disputes Grundy's identifications, Scorranstone and Thornbyrig must be near Woodchester ; Pratt, Alfred, p. 54, on dispute settlement