A.D. 963. Oswald, bishop, to Athelstan, his thegn; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides at Thorne in Inkberrow, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric. English with bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 88r-89r (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 189-90; K, 511 and vol. iii. 463; B, 1110; Hooke 1990, p. 262, bounds only

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 36 (pp. 66-7)

Comments:

Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 157-8, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, p. 322; Finberg, ECWM, no. 286, authentic; Hooke 1989a, p. 118, on woodland; Hooke 1990, pp. 261-4, on bounds, with map p. 262; Whybra 1990, p. 56; Pelteret 1995, p. 309; Dyer 1996, p. 190; King 1996, p. 109 n. 58; Wareham 1996, pp. 55-6, on beneficiary

Show all data

  • Metadata

    Old Text

    • + Mid tyˇe 7 mid geˇafunge Eadgares cynenges 7 Ælfheres Merna ealdermannes 7 ˇætæs heorodes æt Wiogornaceastre ic Oswald ˇurh ˇa rumgiflan Godes cyste to biscope gehadod sumne dæl landes ˇ&