Source: CharterS1283

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Wærfrith, bishop, to Cyneswith, his kinswoman; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides at Elmstone Hardwicke, Gloucs., with reversion to Bishop's Cleeve, for the bishopric. The other 2 hides at Elmstone Hardwicke, of the 5 hides leased by the community to Bishop Wærfrith (cf. S 1415), are to belong to Prestbury for as long as the lease runs.

Charter information
Sawyer 1283
Birch 560
Kemble 305
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 899 x 904

Notes

Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302 (no. 10, on MS); Robertson, Charters, pp. 289-91; Wilson 1959, pp. 301-2, on language; Finberg, ECWM, no. 88, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 421; Hooke 1985, p. 158, cited; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 157-8, and p. 139 n. 110, on Prestbury; Pelteret 1995, pp. 168-9; Bassett 1996, p. 167; Faith 1997, pp. 171-2.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Robertson, Agnes Jane Anglo-Saxon Charters Cambridge 1957 28-31 [no.16]