Source: CharterS1441

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Record of an agreement between Wærferth, bishop of Worcester, and Æthelwald concerning woodland at Woodchester, Bisley, Avening, Gloucs.; and at Scorranstone (? Sherston, Wilts.) and Thornbyrig (? Thornbury, Gloucs.) and swine-pasture at Longridge, Gloucs.

Charter information
Sawyer 1441
Birch 574
Kemble 1073
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Old English
Date from Source 896
Scholarly Source Dating 896

Notes

Harmer, SEHD, pp. 107-9; Stenton 1918, p. 242 n. 44 (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 2); Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 276-8, on suggested identifications for Scorranstone and Thornbyrig; Watson 1932, p. 208, on bounds; Wilson 1959, pp. 301-2, on language; Ekwall, DEPN, pp. 417, 467, accepts Grundy's identifications; PN Gloucs., i. 98, 102, 103, 116; Finberg, ECWM, no. 85, authentic, disputes Grundy's identifications, Scorranstone and Thornbyrig must be near Woodchester; Finberg 1972, p. 515, cited; Sawyer 1978, pp. 146-7, cited, appears to accept identification with Thornbury, Gloucs.; Hooke 1985, pp. 52, 87, 156, accepts Grundy's identifications; Wormald 1988, no. 21; Cox 1992, on bounds; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 159, cited with reference to legal background

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Harmer, Florence Elizabeth Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries Cambridge 1914 56-7