Description
Wiglaf, king of the Mercians, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Botwell in Hayes, Middx.
Notes
*Sweet, OET, p. 460 (no. 59); Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 24-5, MS 1 original, contemporary endorsement is a scribal memorandum; PN Middx, pp. 37, 39, 40, 41; Drögereit 1952, pp. 55-6, spurious; Stengel 1960, pp. 71-2, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 234, contemporary; Harrison 1973, p. 64, on date; Gelling, ECTV, no. 207, original, note on bounds; Sawyer 1983, p. 298, on meeting-place; Brooks 1984, p. 137, on historical background, p. 360 n. 70, original, scribe also wrote S 153, 1268 (witnesses only), 1436, 1482 (main text only); Brown 1986, p. 129, on script; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 115, 123, cited; Bailey 1996, pp. 69-71, on estate.