A.D. 825 (Clofesho). Record of the settlement of a dispute concerning swine-pasture at Sinton in Leigh, Worcs. English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 6

Printed:

Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 80-1; Smith, Bede, pp. 768-9, ex MS; K, 219; B, 386, ex Smith; Earle, pp. 285-7

Printed and Translated:

Thorpe, pp. 70-2; HS, pp. 604-6, ex K; Robertson, Charters, no. 5 (pp. 8-9)

Comments:

Wanley, Catalogus, pp. 301-2, no. 6; PN Worcs., p. 128, identifies with Sinton in Grimley; Stenton 1933, p. 318 n. 3, cited; Robertson, Charters, pp. 266-9, identifies as Sinton in Leigh, notes problem with indiction; Finberg, ECWM, no. 246, authentic, identifies with Sinton in Leigh; Finberg 1972, p. 403, cited; Hooke 1985, pp. 155-6, 184; Vollrath 1985, pp. 201-7, on synodal aspects; Wormald 1988, no. 15; Hooke 1989a, p. 117, on woodland; Hooke 1990, pp. 96-7; Keynes 1994c, p. 12, composite; Cubitt 1995, pp. 80, 286; Wormald, English Law, pp. 373 n. 490, 437 n. 62, not contemporary in present form

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