Source: CharterS1321

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Description

Oswald, bishop, to Beornric, his fidelis; lease, for three lives, of 4.5 hides (mansi) at Longdon in Tredington, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester.

Charter information
Sawyer 1321
Birch 1243
Kemble 553
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 969
Scholarly Source Dating 969

Notes

B iii, p. 535 n. 2, citing Kemble, comments on monks at Worcester; Robinson 1919, p. 20, cannot represent original form, pp. 34-7; John 1960, p. 111, adapted with intent to deceive; John 1966, pp. 259-62, has been tampered with; Finberg, ECWM, no. 300, authentic, discusses identification; HRH, p. 230, early copy but doubtful, no subscriptions; Sawyer 1975, pp. 92, 228 n. 30, suspect; John 1977, p. 193, doctored; Hooke 1991-2, p. 90; Barrow 1992, pp. 56, 71-2, interpolated; Barrow 1996, pp. 88-9; Hooke 1996, p. 114