Description
Æthelbald, king of the Mercians, to Osred, his faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at Aston Blank and Notgrove, Gloucs.
Notes
*Wanley, Catalogus, p. 30, on MS 1; HS, p. 339, doubtful; Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Robinson 1919, pp. 11, 22, some interpolation; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 177-81, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 176, 183, 184, 196, 200, 201; Finberg, ECWM, no. 23, authentic, scribe may have conflated two documents; Scharer 1982, pp. 169-72, not genuine in present form, but authentic basis; Hooke 1985, pp. 99, 128, 161; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 36, on beneficiary, p. 148, corrupt, perhaps interpolated, p. 169 n. 119.