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S 1459
A.D. 1014 x 1023 (? 1017). Marriage agreement whereby Wulfric, on marrying the sister of Archbishop Wulfstan, promises her land at Orleton and Ribblesford, Worcs., for her life, undertakes to obtain for her from the community at Worcester a lease, for three lives, of land at Knightwick, Worcs., and settles on her land at Alton in Rock, Worcs. English
Archive:
Worcester
MSS:
1. Lost Somers charter 18
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ballard 67 (S.C. 10853) (s. xviii; ex Hearne)
Printed:
Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 76, ex MS 1; Wanley, Catalogus, pp. 302-3 (no. 18), ex MS 1; Smith, Bede, p. 778, ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 598; K, 738, ex Hickes; Robertson, Charters, no. 76 (p. 148), ex Smith
Translated:
Whitelock, EHD, no. 128 (p. 593)
Printed and Translated:
Thorpe, pp. 320-1, ex Hickes and Hearne
Comments:
Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28, cited; Atkins 1940, pp. 16-17, dates c. 1017; Robertson, Charters, pp. 395-7, dates 1014 x 1016; Whitelock 1963, p. 11 n. 2, on date; Finberg, ECWM, no. 337, authentic; HRH, p. 236, authentic, dates c. 1014 x 1016; Whitelock, EHD, p. 593; Hooke 1990, pp. 329-30; Dumville 1993, p. 67 n. 292, perhaps 1017; Lapidge 1993, p. 413, on Evesham link, dates 1014 x 1023; Pelteret 1995, pp. 166-7; Foot 2000, II. 241, 258
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- + Her swutela∂ on ∂ysum gewrite ymbe ∂a forwerda ∂e Wulfric 7 se arcebisceop geworhtan ∂a he begeat ∂æs arcebisceop swuster him to wife . ˇæt is ∂æt he behet hyre ˇæt land æt Ealretune