Source: CharterS1340

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Description

Oswald, archbishop, to Æthelstan, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides (mansae) at Daylesford, Gloucs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester.

Charter information
Sawyer 1340
Birch ---
Kemble 623
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 979
Scholarly Source Dating 979

Notes

Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 104-6; Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 72-4; PN Gloucs., i. 212, 213, 217; Finberg, ECWM, no. 127, authentic; Hooke 1985, pp. 144, 147, 211, on elements of bounds and estate history; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 152, the payment of church-scot reserved in the lease may have been owed to a church at Daylesford; Dumville 1992, pp. 41-2 n. 58, on estate history; King 1996, p. 109; Wareham 1996, pp. 55, 59, on beneficiary