Source: CharterS107

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Description

Offa, king of Mercians, to Milred, bishop of the Hwicce; grant of 10 hides (manentia) at Pyrton, Oxon.

Charter information
Sawyer 107
Birch 221
Kemble 129
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 2nd February 765
Scholarly Source Dating 765

Notes

*Gelling, ECTV, no. 261, spurious, evidence shows that the estate was called Readanoran until at least the end of the ninth century (see S 217); Scharer 1982, pp. 232-3, spurious.
Note. No dating clause, but in MS 1 Archbishop Jænberht attests on the day of his consecration.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Jones, Arthur Edward Ernest Anglo-Saxon Worcester Worcester 1958 69-70