Source: CharterS221

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Æthelred and Æthelflæd, rulers of Mercia, to the community of the church of Much Wenlock; grant of 10 hides (cassatae) at Stanton Long and 3 hides (manentes) at Caughley in Barrow, Salop., in exchange for 3 hides (manentes) at Easthope and 5 at Patton, Salop. They also grant a gold chalice weighing 30 mancuses in honour of Abbess Mildburg.

Charter information
Sawyer 221
Birch 587
Kemble 330
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Much Wenlock
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 901
Scholarly Source Dating 901

Notes

Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Stenton 1955, p. 45, cited with reference to latinity; Finberg, ECW, pp. 251-2, on place-name Wenlock; Chaplais 1968, p. 315 n. 3, one of earliest original chirographs now extant (= 1973, p. 63 n. 3); Stenton 1971, p. 326, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 430, authentic, and addendum, pp. 239-40; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 1, 2, original; PN Shrops., i. 113-14, 233, 267-8, 270, 303-4; Campbell 1989, p. 28, cited; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 145, original; BA Facs., p. 12, on crosses in margin; Hart 1992, p. 570 n. 4; Lapidge 1993, p. 13, on latinity.

Notes: Upper portion of chirograph (.... ME CRUCIS + for ? SIGNUM ALME CRUCIS).

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Stevenson, William Henry, & Duigan, William Henry Anglo-Saxon Charters relating to Shropshire Transactions of the Shropshire Archaeological and Natural History Society 1911 5-6