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Instant Sawyer

Hide

(A.D. 693.) Oshere, king of the Hwicce, to Cuthswith, abbess; grant of 15 hides (tributarii) at Penintanham (probably Inkberrow, Worcs.) and Dyllawidu (?), for the foundation of a minster. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3v (s. xvii; ex 1)

Printed:

Hickes, Inst. Gramm, pp. 169-70, ex MS 1, cf. pp. 168-9; K, 36; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 5); B, 85; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 36

Comments:

HS, pp. 232, 241, unquestioned; Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 436 n. 18, commands respect (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 4); Finberg, ECW, p. 251, reading should be Penintanham, not Penitanham, identifies with Inkberrow; Davies 1972, p. 466, spurious elements; Finberg, ECWM, no. 382, authentic, and p. 239; Cox 1976, pp. 20, 35, on place-names; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 8-13, agrees with Inkberrow identification; Gelling 1978a, p. 212, disputes Inkberrow identification; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 21, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 35 n. 99, 191, 193-4, authentic; Cubitt 1995, pp. 40, 259, authentic; John of Worcester, p. 164 n., on two witnesses; Kelly, Selsey, p. xlix, on formulation.