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A.D. 1020 x 1023 (London). Record of the acquisition by Ælfsige, abbot of Peterborough, on behalf of the abbey, of fenland at Whittlesey Mere, Hunts., from Thored, in exchange for land at Orton, Hunts., and a sum of money. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 24r-25v (s. xii med.)
2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 119v-120r (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

K, 733 ; Stapleton 1849, pp. 182-3 ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 4

Comments:

Lawson 1993, p. 165, on Thored ; Darby, VCH Hunts., iii. 251-2, with translation of bounds ; PN Beds. and Hunts., pp. 186, 188, 191, 202, 216, 227 ; Hart, ECEE, no. 32, authentic