Source: CharterS1441
Description
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 |
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Source Information
| Language |
Old English |
| Date from Source |
896 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
896 |
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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)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
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Harmer, Florence Elizabeth |
Select English Historical Documents of the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
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Cambridge
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1914 |
56-7 |
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