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S 64
A.D. 699 x 709. Offa, king of Mercia (? recte of Essex), also termed subregulus, to the church of Worcester; grant of 33 hides (cassati) at Shottery, 3 at Nuthurst, Warwicks.; and 3 at Hellerelege (lost, in Kings Norton), Worcs. Latin with bounds in Latin and English
Archive:
Worcester
MSS:
1.
London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 184r (s. xi)
2.
London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 107r-v (s. xi 1; omits Hellerelege)
3.
London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 107v-108r (s. xi 1; omits Nuthurst)
Printed:
Hearne, Heming, pp. 227-9 ; K, 55 and vol. iii. 374-5 ; B, 123, ex MS 1 ; B, 123A, ex MS 2 ; B, 123B, ex MS 3 ; Earle, pp. 310-11
Comments:
Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic ; Cox 1976, pp. 22, 25, 26, 38, 43, 45, on place-names ; Dyer 1980, p. 25, cf. S 1278 ; Hooke 1985, p. 57, on bounds and topography ; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possible genuine elements ; Yorke 1985, pp. 7-8, 22-3, 25-6, uses charter as evidence for royal status of Offa of Essex ; Hooke 1990, pp. 58-61, on bounds of Hellerelege, solution still not definite ; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 35 n. 99, 162, citing Whitelock, may originally have been a charter of Cenred of Mercia ; Whybra 1990, p. 42 ; Hooke 1991-2, p. 79 ; Lapidge 1993, p. 293 n., has some claim to be genuine ; Hooke 1996, p. 106 ; Hooke 1999, pp. 27-30, on bounds, with map ; Earle, p. 311, spurious ; Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 163-4, on bounds of Hellerelege ; PN Worcs., p. 15 ; PN Warwicks., p. 239 n., on bounds ; Finberg, ECWM, no. 200 and p. 182, authentic basis, donor was probably Offa of Essex ; Hart, ECNE, no. 42, authentic basis ; Hooke 1989a, p. 116, on woodland