Source: CharterS218
Description
(a) Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, with the consent of King Alfred and the whole Mercian witan, to Berkeley Abbey; grant of privileges in exchange for 12 hides at Stoke Bishop, Gloucs., and 30 gold mancuses. (b) Æthelred, ealdorman, to Cynewulf, son of Ceoluht; lease, for three lives, of the land at Stoke Bishop, with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
218 |
| Birch |
551 |
| Kemble |
313 |
| British Academy |
--- |
| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Worcester |
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Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
883 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
883 |
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Notes
*Kerslake 1883, on bounds; Taylor 1894/1, pp. 301-2, on bounds; Harmer, SEHD, pp. 103-5; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, authentic; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 223-31, on bounds; Lindley 1959; Wilson 1959, pp. 302-4, on language; Everett 1961, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 3, iii. 132, 134, 143-5, on bounds; Stenton 1971, p. 260 n. 2, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 83, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 423, 499, on boundary marks; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 228 n. 1, on Æthelred and Alfred; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 137, 176, may mark the end of a dispute between Berkeley and the see of Worcester; Dumville 1992, p. 7, authenticity and authority of date not yet properly established; Wormald 1993, p. 20; Bullough 1996, p. 11 n. 39, on estate; Faith 1997, p. 104, cited
Translation(s)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
 |
Taylor, C.S. |
Berkeley Minister |
Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society |
1894-5 |
83-4 |
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