Source: CharterS145

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Description

Offa, king of the English, to St Mary's minster, Worcester; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Doughton in Tetbury, Gloucs., and 5 at Eisey in Latton, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 145
Birch 226
Kemble 134
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 777
Scholarly Source Dating 777

Notes

*Stenton 1918, p. 448 n. 67, suspicious, vernacular bounds cannot be contemporary (= Stenton 1970, p. 62 n. 2); Robinson 1919, p. 26, spurious, perhaps modelled on S 109; Finberg, ECW, no. 193, spurious; PN Gloucs., i. 111, 113; Finberg, ECWM, no. 34, spurious, anachronistic OE bounds and reference to St Mary's; Scharer 1982, pp. 239-40, spurious, dates 777 from subscription of Bishop Ealdberht of Hereford; Prince 1983, on bounds.

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Event S145    Offa 7, rex Anglorum, to the minster of Worcester, St Mary's 1; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Doughton in Tetbury, Gloucs., and 5 at Eisey in Latton, Wilts.
2 Transaction S145    Offa 7, rex Anglorum, to the minster of Worcester, St Mary's; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Doughton in Tetbury, Gloucs., and 5 at Eisey in Latton, Wilts.