Description
Decree of a synod under Archbishop Nothhelm concerning the succession of a monastery (at Withington, Gloucs.) built on 20 hides (cassati) by the river Tillath (Coln) given for the purpose by Æthelred, king of Mercians.
Notes
*HS, p. 338; Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, genuine; John 1960, p. 47, on legal background; Whitelock 1960-1, p. 1010; Finberg 1964, pp. 21-2; John 1966, pp. 85-6, on legal background; Finberg, ECWM, no. 21, authentic; Lapidge 1975, pp. 815-16; Whitelock, EHD, p. 494; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 59, cited with reference to legal background; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Wormald 1988, no. 1; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 130-4; Cubitt 1995, pp. 41, 80, 265, authentic; Bassett 1996, p. 166; cf. S 1255.