S 1273

A.D. 855 (Worcester). Alhwine (Alhhun), bishop of Worcester, to Æthelwulf, dux, and Wulfthryth, his wife; lease, for their lives, of 11 hides (cassati) at Cutsdean, Gloucs., and at Sture (? Alderminster, Worcs.), with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 7

Printed:

Smith, Bede, pp. 769-70, ex MS; K, 279, ex Smith; B, 490, ex Smith; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 24

Translated:

Bridgeman 1916, pp. 75-6 (no. 2)

Comments:

Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, no. 7, lower part of a chirograph, cut-words CYROGRAPHUM ALHWINI EP' ET ÆTHELWULFI DUCIS; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 76-7; Chaplais 1968, p. 315 n. 3, apparently an original chirograph, now lost (= 1973, p. 63 n. 3); Finberg, ECWM, no. 75, authentic; O'Donovan 1973, p. 112, on uncertainty about the bishop's name; Kelly 1990, p. 49; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 162, on the estate at Sture; Smyth 1995, p. 7; Keynes 1998, p. 10 n. 35; Hooke 1999, p. 45

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