S 1480

A.D. 1062 x 1066. Declaration that Ealdred, archbishop, has purchased 10 hides (cassati) at Hampnett, Gloucs., and granted it to St Mary's, Worcester. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, f. 179r (s. xi 2)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 398-400; K, 823; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 43

Comments:

Atkins 1940, pp. 33-4; Oleson 1955, p. 155, dubious; Davies 1972, p. 477 n. 166, dubious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 174, spurious but authentic basis possible, calendar of benefactors (Mon. Angl., i. 609) dates purchase 1061 and names vendor as Godwine, thegn of King Edward; HRH, p. 234, doubtful, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1988, p. 208 n. 134, spurious, but some witnesses from a genuine charter of 1060s