S 1347

A.D. 984. Oswald, archbishop, to Cynelm, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2.5 hides (mansae) at Caldinccotan, in Bredon, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin with English and English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19794 (s. x 2; BM Facs., iii. 32)

Printed:

Earle, pp. 207-9; Hooke 1990, pp. 307-8, bounds only

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary; Atkins 1940, p. 9, authentic; Bishop 1971, p. xxii, on script; Finberg, ECWM, no. 322, authentic, identifies as Kinsham in Bredon; Finberg 1972, p. 496, cited; Hooke 1985, pp. 65, 192, 193, 217, on details of bounds and topography; Ker, Catalogue, pp. xxvi, xxx, xxxiii, compares script to that of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 353; Hooke 1990, pp. 307-10, suggests it is a separate estate in Bredon to the north of Kinsham; Dumville 1993, pp. 20, 22, 29, 56, 75-6, on script, place-name probably an insertion; King 1996, p. 110

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    • Old English bounds only ˇonne is ˇæs londes ˇridde half hid ˇe oswold arcebisceop sel∂ cynelme his ˇegne to boc londe. Swa he hit him ær hæfde toforlæten to læn londe ægˇær ge on ear∂ londe ge on hom londe.