S 1407

? A.D. 1053. Ealdred, bishop, to Balwine, his man; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (mansi) and a yardland at West tun (Weston-on-Avon, Warwicks.), with reversion to St Mary's, Worcester. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19800 (s. xi med.; BM Facs., iv. 32)

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary; Atkins 1940, p. 25; Robertson, Charters, p. 457, belongs at the earliest to 1053; Davies 1972, p. 472, cited; Finberg, ECWM, p. 238, original, dates 1053 x 1056; HRH, p. 238, probably original, dates c. 1053; Ker 1985, p. 34 n. 2; Dumville 1993, pp. 67-8, dates 1053, unlikely to be a forgery although the script is regressive; Hooke 1999, p. 109; Thompson 2006, p. 77, on script