Source: CharterS1345

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Oswald, archbishop, to Gardulf, his kinsman; lease, with limitations for three lives, of 5 hides (mansae) at Abbots Lench, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester.

Charter information
Sawyer 1345
Birch ---
Kemble 637
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 983
Scholarly Source Dating 983

Notes

PN Worcs., p. 149, identifies as Rous Lench; Finberg, ECWM, no. 317, authentic, identifies as Abbots Lench; Hooke 1990, pp. 151-2; Barrow 1996, pp. 90-1; Bullough 1996, p. 18, on internal reference to the completion the new basilica at Worcester; King 1996, pp. 109-10; Wareham 1996, pp. 56-7, 58-9, on beneficiary.

Notes: A note in the MS identifies Leoflęd 2 as the second life.