S 1341

A.D. 980. Oswald, bishop, to Ælfweard, miles; lease, for life, of land at Bengeworth, Worcs., with reversion, first to Eadwine, miles, then to one of his brothers and finally to the church of St Mary, Worcester. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 98v-99r (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 210-11; K, 625

Comments:

Finberg, ECWM, no. 313, authentic basis; Lapidge 1988, p. 93, on the wording of Oswald's subscription. cf. S 1384 (= Lapidge 1993, p. 187); Hooke 1990, p. 151, cited; Whybra 1990, p. 54; Wormald 1995, p. 122 n., apparently authentic; King 1996, p. 102 n. 6, spurious; Wareham 1996, p. 60