Source: CharterS1341

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Oswald, bishop, to Ælfweard, miles; lease, for life, of land at Bengeworth, Worcs., with reversion, first to Eadwine, miles, then to one of his brothers [Anonymous] and finally to the church of Worcester, St Mary's.

Charter information
Sawyer 1341
Birch ---
Kemble 625
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 980
Scholarly Source Dating 980

Notes

Finberg, ECWM, no. 313, authentic basis; Hooke 1990, p. 151, cited; Lapidge 1988, p. 93, on the wording of Oswald's subscrption. cf. S 1384 (= Lapidge 1993, p. 187); Wormald 1995, p. 122 n., apparently authentic; King 1996, p. 102 n. 6, spurious; Wareham 1996, p. 60