Source: CharterS223
Description
Æthelred, ealdorman, and Æthelflæd, with the witness of King Alfred, to the church of Worcester, St Peter's; grant of legal and trading rights at Worcester: land-rent, the fine for fighting, or theft, or dishonest trading, and damages to the borough-wall, and all the [fines for] offences which admit of compensation, are to belong half to the lord of the church, for the sake of God and St Peter, exactly as it has been laid done as regards this market-place and the streets; outside the market-place, the bishop is to be entitled to his lands and all his rights.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
223 |
| Birch |
579 |
| Kemble |
1075 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Worcester |
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Source Information
| Language |
Old English |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
884 x 901 |
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Notes
*Harmer, SEHD, pp. 106-7; Stenton, V.C.H. Worcs., iv. 377, genuine; Tait 1936, pp. 19-23; Harmer 1950, p. 339 n. 4, pp. 343-4; Harmer, Writs, p. 410, on reference to tolls; Clarke and Dyer 1969, pp. 28-9; Stenton 1971, pp. 326, 528-9; Finberg, ECWM, no. 268, authentic; Sawyer 1977, pp. 147, 155-6, cited; Sawyer 1978, pp. 192, 229, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 540; Hooke 1980, p. 39; Hooke 1981/1, pp. 134, 139; Hooke 1990, pp. 102-3; Kelly 1992, p. 17, cited; Baker and Holt 1996, pp. 130, 132, on topography
Translation(s)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
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EHD
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540-1 [no.99] |
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