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A.D. 972. King Edgar to Pershore Abbey; grant of privileges and restoration of land at Pershore, and of 10 hides (mansi) at Bricklehampton, 10 at Comberton, 5 at Pensham in Pershore St Andrew, 16 at Eckington, 10 at Birlingham, 10 at Defford, 10 at Strensham, 10 at Besford, land at Cromban (? Croombe Perry in Pirton), 10 hides at Severn Stoke, 10 hides at Pirton, 4 at Wadborough in Pershore Holy Cross, 3 at Chevington ibid., 3 at Broughton ibid., 10 at Peopleton, 10 at Snodsbury, 7 at Naunton Beauchamp, 4 at Abberton, 5 at Wihtlafestune (? North Piddle), 5 at Flyford, 5 at Grafton Flyford, 5 at Dormston, 5 at Martin Hussingtree, 3 at Broughton Hackett, 2 at Libbery in Grafton Flyford, 30 at Longdon, 7 at Powick, 3 at Beornothesleahe (Leigh), all in Worcs.; 3 at Acton Beauchamp, Herefords.; 40 at South Stoke (i.e. Hawkesbury), Hillesley, Tresham, Kilcott, Oldbury on the Hill, Didmarton, Badminton and Hawkesbury Upton, 10 at Dyrham, 5 at Longney, 6 at Lydney, 6 at Wyegate, all in Gloucs.; 5 at Beoley, 5 at Yardley, Worcs.; 10 at Sture (Alderminster, Warwicks.); 20 at Broadway, Worcs.; 5 at Coltune; 10 at Childs Wickham, Gloucs.; sites for vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich and 1.5 hides at Horton in Hampton Lovett, Worcs., and 3 iugera with meadow at Worcester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester (ex Pershore)

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 6 (s. x/xi; BM Facs., iii. 30)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 163v-164r (s. xi 2; bounds of Acton Beauchamp)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. VII, ff. 29r-30v (s. xvi)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), ff. 66r-67r (s. xvii; no bounds or witnesses)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), ff. 2r-3v (s. xvii; no bounds or witnesses)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 204-5, ex MS 1; K, 570, ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 416 (no. 2); B, 1282, ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 441-52

Comments:

V.C.H. Worcs., iv, p. 151 and n., citing Stenton, hand of MS 1 places it a century later; BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Taylor 1894a, p. 297, original; Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 42, may be contemporary, but somewhat doubtful; Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 3, more or less suspicious; Stevenson 1912, p. 6 n. 17, hand appears to be mid-11th century; PN Beds. and Hunts., pp. 17, 23, 55, 87, on details of bounds; PN Beds. and Hunts., p. 182; Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 7-9, 27-8, 40-3, 45-8, 164-5, 177-8, on bounds of Acton Beauchamp, Beoley, Broadway, Chaceley, Eldersfield, Staunton, Leigh, and Martin Hussingtree; Grundy, Worcs., II, pp. 18-19, 30-2, 32-40, 43-7, 121-3, on identification of places in the charter, and on bounds of Naunton Beauchamp, Pershore, Powick, and Yardley; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 24-31, 118-24, bounds of Sture, identified as Alderminster; bounds of Dyrham; Forsberg 1950, pp. 212-13, on bounds in Cromban and of Longdon; PN Gloucs., cf. pt iv, pp. 220-1; Chaplais 1966a, p. 165, MS 1 apparent original, perhaps tampered with but script contemporary, may have been writtten at Abingdon (= 1973, p. 49); John 1966, pp. 181-209, esp. pp. 199-206, authentic, MS 1 original; Skipp 1970, pp. 9-15, on Yardley estate and bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 120 (pp. 59, 116-17, 143), authentic, discusses identification and bounds of South Stoke, cf also no. 236 and addendum, p. 238; HRH, p. 230, MS 1 very early copy but suspicious, subscriptions would be consistent if Kinsige = Wynsige, bishop of Lichfield; PN Berks., ii. 356, on a boundary mark; Cox 1975, p. 39, on estates; Hooke 1980, p. 45, on boundary mark; Keynes 1980, pp. 98-100, forgery; Hooke 1981, pp. 356-7, on bounds; Hooke 1987, pp. 96-9, on boundary mark; Wormald 1988a, p. 39 nn. 107 and 107, suspect; Lapidge 1988, p. 94 n. 43, forged on the basis of S 876; Hooke 1990, pp. 177-230, on bounds; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 95; Keynes 1993b, p. 315 n. 68; Abrams 1996, p. 213 n. 133, citing Kitson, bounds may be from 990s; Bassett 1996, p. 166 n. 37; Hooke 1999, pp. 67-71, on bounds, with map; Foot 2000, II. 133; Kelly, Abingdon, pp. cvi-cxi, most likely to be authentic and original; Insley 2002, pp. 116-17, discusses 'Orthodoxorum' charters; Thompson 2006, pp. 20 et passim, on script