Source: CharterS1374

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Oswald, archbishop, to Wulfheah, priest; lease, for three lives, of a yardland at Genenofre, with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester.

Charter information
Sawyer 1374
Birch ---
Kemble 681
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 975 x 978

Notes

Grundy, Worcs. 1928, pp. 118-20, on bounds, land lay near Battenhall in St Peters-without-Worcester; Robertson, Charters, pp. 363-4, probably 977; John 1966, p. 246; Finberg, ECWM, no. 309, authentic; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine; Sawyer 1975, p. 87, dates 977; Hooke 1980, pp. 41, 45, on topography; Hooke 1985, pp. 166, 168, on appurtenant woodland, p. 237, on topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 297-9, on bounds, associates Genenofre with Green Hill near Worcester; King 1996, p. 112.

Notes: Rubric refers to Godwine and Ælfric as second and third lives.

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