S 1254

A.D. 718 x 745. Wilfred, bishop of the Hwicce, to Leppa, comes, and his daughter, Beage; lease, for two lives, of 5 hides (cassati) by the river Colne (at Bibury, Gloucs.), with reversion to the see of Worcester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 39r (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 84-5; K, 91 and vol. iii. 378; B, 166; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 41

Comments:

Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 40-3, bounds describe tithing of Ablington inBibury, cf. S 1279; Forsberg 1950, pp. 72, 74; PN Gloucs., i. 27-9; Stenton 1971, p. 485, the first recorded English lease; Finberg, ECWM, no. 16, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 460, cited; PN Berks., iii. 825, Bibury would appear to be named from Beage; Cox 1976, p. 43, on place-names; Gelling 1978, p. 182, on place-name Bibury; Sawyer 1978, p. 155-6; Bishop 1984, on bounds; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Campbell 1986, pp. 108, 140, on reference to Worcester as the metropolis of the Hwicce; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 89, 152, 379; Whybra 1990, pp. 40, 60

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    • Beagan byrig. + In nomine domini Jhesu ; Terram quindecim cassatorum juxta fluvium cui nomen est Cunuglae ad metropolim Huicciorum . id est . Uuegrinancæstir pertinentem tertiam partem . hoc est . quinque cassatos; Ego Uuilfri∂ episcopus diocesis Huuicciorum . viro non ignobili reverentissimo comiti cui nomen est Leppa propter veterem inter nos amicitiam libentissime in possessionem donans concedo . Ita tamen ut post terminum dierum ejus et filiæ suæ quæ vocatur Beage ; Eadem agelli pars ad episcopalem sedem præfatæ parrochiæ cum suis sumtis iterum reddatur . propter firmitatem huius conditionis ; + Ego Æˇelbaldus rex Merciorum . Signum sanctæ crucis inposui cum terminis . Of cunuglan sulhforda ond long drihtnes dene on leppan crundlas . ˇat on east hleopan . 7 swa on rawan berh . ˇonne ˇweres ofer ∂a dene on ∂a aldan dic æt Lec; + Ego Wilfri∂us episcopus consensi et subscripsi subinsertis . + Ego Æˇelric subscripsi . + Ego Ælbred consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Heardberht consensi et subscripsi . + Ego Leppa consentiendo subscribo;