Description
Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, to Cyneburg; grant of 6 hides (cassati) at Bradley near Inkberrow, Worcs.
Notes
*B, vol. i. 221 n. 2, on date; Stenton 1913, p. 23 n. 1, possibly authentic; Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 439 n. 31, probably genuine (= Stenton 1970, p. 53 n. 5); PN Worcs., p. 166; Finberg, ECWM, no. 209, authentic; Cox 1976, p. 17, on place-name; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 17-21; Scharer 1982, pp. 166-8, genuine apart from dating clause, correct date probably 723; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 26, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 146, cited, pp. 238-42, on beneficiary, p. 391, on Bradley topography.