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A.D. 883. (a) Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, with the consent of King Alfred and the whole Mercian witan, to Berkeley Abbey; grant of privileges in exchange for 12 hides at Stoke Bishop, Gloucs., and 30 gold mancuses. (b) Æthelred, ealdorman, to Cynulf, son of Ceoluht; lease, for three lives, of the land at Stoke Bishop, with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin and English with English bounds. Latin and English with English bounds
Archive:
Worcester
MSS:
2.
London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 50r-51r (s. xi 1)
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London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 129r (s. xvii; incomplete; from lost original)
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Lost original
Printed:
Hearne, Heming, pp. 103-6, ex MS 2 ; Hearne, Heming, p. 556, ex MS 3 ; K, 313 ; Thorpe, pp. 129-32 ; B, 551 ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 44 ; Harmer, SEHD, no. 12 (pp. 20-2, 43-4)
Comments:
Kerslake 1883, on bounds ; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, authentic ; Lindley 1959 ; Wilson 1959, pp. 302-4, on language ; Everett 1961, on bounds ; Stenton 1971, p. 260 n. 2, cited ; Finberg 1972, pp. 423, 499, on boundary marks ; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 228 n. 1, on Æthelred and Alfred ; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 137, 176, may mark the end of a dispute between Berkeley and the see of Worcester ; Whybra 1990, p. 44 ; Dumville 1992, p. 7, authenticity and authority of date not yet properly established ; Wormald 1993, p. 20 ; Bullough 1996, p. 11 n. 39, on estate ; Meyvaert 1996, p. 879, use of word 'bibliotheca' suggests spurious ; Faith 1997, p. 104, cited ; Keynes 1998, pp. 20, 27 ; Foot 2000, II. 40-1 ; Walker 2000, p. 76, on Æthelred of Mercia ; Taylor 1894a, pp. 301-2, on bounds ; Harmer, SEHD, pp. 103-5 ; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 223-31, on bounds ; PN Gloucs., i. 3, iii. 132, 134, 143-5, on bounds ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 83, authentic ; Wormald, English Law, p. 108 n. 376 ; Nelson 1986a, p. 60