Source: CharterS80

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Description

Cenred, king of the Mercians, and Offa, ruler of the East Angles, to the monastery at Evesham, St Mary's; confirmation of 67 hides (mansae) at Evesham, Lenchwick, Norton, Offenham, Littleton, Aldington, Badsey, Bretforton, Church Honeybourne, Willersey, Wickhamford, Bengeworth, Hampton, and at Abbots Morton, all in Worcs. except Willersey, Gloucs.

Charter information
Sawyer 80
Birch 125
Kemble 61
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Evesham
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 709
Scholarly Source Dating 709

Notes

*HS, p. 280, spurious; PN Worcs., p. 2, a gross forgery; PN Gloucs., i. 257, 264-5, ii. 7, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 10 (pp. 33, 88-9), spurious; Cox 1975, pp. 42-3, obvious forgery; Scharer 1982, pp. 156-7, spurious; Hooke 1987, pp. 96-9, on a detail of topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 46-57, bounds cover all the places named in the abstract, except Abbots Morton; Dumville 1992, p. 42 n. 58, spurious.