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A.D. 727 x 736. Æthelbald, king of the South Angles, to Wilfrid, bishop (of Worcester); grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Batsford, Gloucs. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 183v (s. xi)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 15v (s. xi 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 170r-v (s. xi 2)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 34, 376-7; K, 88; B, 163; Earle, p. 304; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 39

Comments:

Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 442, contemporary formulas (= Stenton 1970, pp. 56-7); Finberg 1957, pp. 5-8, date and topography discussed; Finberg 1964, pp. 17-18, on estate; Finberg, ECWM, no. 15, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 392-3, with map, on topography; Cox 1976, p. 16, on place-name; Scharer 1982, p. 169, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 146, cited; Whybra 1990, p. 34; Bassett 1996, p. 167, on estate

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    • Bæccesore. + Ego Æˇelbald divina dispensatione rex Su∂anglorum terram . viii . manentium quæ nominatur æt Bæccesore pro redemptione animæ meæ ut sit juris æcclesiastici domno Uuilfrido episcopo libentur largitus sum . notis limitibus hæc terras ab aliis litem discernit agris montis ad meridiem versus . haut parvam obtinet partem . ad orientem via regia septa . ab aquilone fluvialibus cingitur undis. + Ego Æˇelbald rex donum meum confirmo . + Ego Walhstod episcopus donationi regis humiliter consensi. + Ego Uuilfrid episcopus . + Ego Oba minister . + Ego Æthelred subscripsi . + Ego Sigebed minister.