S 361

A.D. 900 ? for 904. King Edward confirms the sale by Hungyth to Wigferth of 5 hides (manentes) at Water Eaton, Oxon., the earlier landbook having been lost. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 30v-31r (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 65-6; K, 340 and vol. iii. 404; B, 607; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 55

Comments:

Grundy, Oxon., pp. 85-9; PN Oxon., i. 6, 17, ii. 268, 421, 489, on bounds and place-names; Stenton 1955, p. 52, no obvious anachronism; Stenton 1971, p. 252 n. 1, cited; O'Donovan 1972, p. 41, dated 900 with indiction for 904, may belong to late 900 with indiction misread; O'Donovan 1973, p. 94; Gelling, ECTV, no. 267, authentic, bounds describe modern parish of Water Eaton, the 'lost' earlier landbook was evidently S 210; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, cited; Cooper 1985, pp. 20-1, 22 , with map, discusses bounds; Whybra 1990, p. 38; Keynes 1993b, p. 313, cited; Blair 1994, p. 128, on detail of bounds; Keynes 1998, p. 12

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