Notes
*Sweet, OET, p. 431 (no. 14); Stenton 1905, p. 698, contemporary (= Stenton 1970, p. 1); Stenton 1918, p. 440 n. 35, p. 445 n. 59, authentic (= Stenton 1970, p. 54 n. 4, p. 60 n. 1); Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 31-3, on bounds; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 52-3, on bounds; Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-xiv, trustworthy; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Stenton 1955, p. 60; PN Gloucs., i. 183, 197-8, 207, on bounds; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 184, contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 29, 40, 43 n. 162; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Stenton 1971, p. 309, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 38, original; Finberg 1972, p. 445, cited; Sawyer 1978, p. 101, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 377, inflated style; Whitelock 1979, p. 80, on beneficiary; Scharer 1982, pp. 245-6, original; Hooke 1985, pp. 56, 210; Brown 1986, p. 132 n. 54, on script; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 150 n., pp. 154-5, probably authentic although there is a lack of dated MSS for comparison; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 58, apparent original; Reynolds 1992, pp. 216-17 (= 1994, p. 328), on tenurial background; Brown 1996, p. 165, on script, associates with S 59 MS 1.
Note. The main scribe wrote the text and seven subscriptions on the face and dorse; another scribe added nine secular witnesses on the dorse. Two-stage production: issued at Hartleford, Gloucs; confirmed at Gumley, Leics. Cf. also BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 72v, where the final sentence of S 114 (referring to the Gumley confirmation and defective in MS 1) is combined with the bounds from S 550 (printed K 1370).
