Source: CharterS1254

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Wilfred, bishop of the Hwicce, to Leppa, comes, and his daughter, Beage; lease, for two lives, of 15 hides (cassati) by the river Colne (at Bibury, Gloucs.), with reversion to the see of Worcester.

Charter information
Sawyer 1254
Birch 116
Kemble 91
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 718 x 745

Notes

*Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 40-3, bounds describe tithing of Ablington inBibury, cf. S 1279; Forsberg 1950, pp. 72, 74; PN Gloucs., i. 27-9; PN Berks., iii. 825, Bibury would appear to be named from Beage; Stenton 1971, p. 485, the first recorded English lease; Finberg, ECWM, no. 16, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 460, cited; Cox 1976, p. 43, on place-names; Gelling 1978, p. 182, on place-name Bibury; Sawyer 1978, p. 155-6; Bishop 1984, on bounds; Campbell 1986, pp. 108, 140, on reference to Worcester as the metropolis of the Hwicce; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 89, 152, 379.