Source: CharterS1280

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Wærfrith, bishop, and the community at Worcester, to Æthelred and Æthelflæd, their lords; lease, for their lives and that of Ælfwynn, their daughter, of a messuage (haga) in Worcester and land at Barbourne in North Claines, Worcs., with reversion to the bishop.

Charter information
Sawyer 1280
Birch 608
Kemble 339
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 904
Scholarly Source Dating 904

Notes

Robinson 1923, p. 38, on a witness; Robertson, Charters, pp. 294-6, incarnation year and indiction not compatible, but witnesses support year 904; Forsberg 1950, p. 23, on a boundary mark; Wilson 1959, pp. 301-2, on language; Clarke and Dyer 1968-9, p. 29, on topography; Finberg, ECWM, no. 272, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 495; Sawyer, Burton, p. 2; Dyer 1980, p. 27; Hooke 1980, pp. 39-41, 47, 48, on bounds and topography, with partial edition and translation, p. 49; Hooke 1990, pp. 241-3, discusses bounds and location of Worcester haga; Baker et al. 1992, pp. 67, 72-3, on topography; Baker and Holt 1996, pp. 134-5, 140, on topography.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Jones, Arthur Edward Ernest Anglo-Saxon Worcester Worcester 1958 98-100
Robertson, Agnes Jane Anglo-Saxon Charters Cambridge 1957 34-9 [no.19]