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A.D. 884 (Hrisbyri, ? Princes Risborough, Bucks.). Æthelred, lord of the Mercians, to Æthelwulf; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Himbleton, Worcs., with appurtenant salt-workings etc. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 9

Printed:

Smith, Bede, p. 771, ex MS; K, 1066, from Smith; B, 552, ex Smith; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 59

Translated:

Jones 1958, pp. 87-8

Comments:

Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, no. 9, MS of suspect age and authenticity; Smith, Bede, p. 771, suspicious; PN Bucks., p. 171 n; Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 147-51, on bounds; Parsons 1934; Forsberg 1950, p. 211, on bounds; Davies 1972, p. 470, on a formula; Finberg, ECWM, no. 265, authentic; Hooke 1981a, pp. 136, 149, on details of saltworkings; Sawyer 1983, p. 296, on meeting-place; Nelson 1986a, p. 60; Hooke 1990, pp. 129-34, on bounds; Hart 1992, p. 460 n. 19, citing Gelling, meeting-place may be Risborough, Herefords; Keynes 1998, pp. 20-1, 27; Walker 2000, pp. 76-7, on Æthelred of Mercia

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    • + Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Jesu Christo . Ejusdemque autem Incarnationis dccc o . lxxx o . iiii . Indictione vero secunda . Ego Aeˇelred divina largiente gratia principatu 7 dominio gentis Merciorum subfultus donatio