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A.D. 709. Cenred, king of Mercia, and Offa, ruler of the East Angles, to the monastery at Evesham; confirmation of 67 hides (mansae) at Evesham, Lenchwick, Norton, Offenham, Littleton, Aldington, Badsey, Bretforton, Church Honeybourne, Willersey, Wickhamford, Bengeworth, Hampton, and at Abbots Morton, all in Worcs. except Willersey, Gloucs. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Evesham

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, ff. 68r-69r (s. xii/xiii)
2. London, British Library, Harley 358, ff. 52v-53v (s. xvi)
3. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, ff. 15r-16r (s. xvii)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), ff. 26v-27v (s. xvii; no bounds)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), ff. 23r-24r (s. xvii)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 252, ff. 12v-13r (s. xvii)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 209-10; Mon. Angl., i. 145-6; Alford 1663, ii. 461; Wilkins, Concilia, iv. 748-9; Tindal 1794, pp. 150-2; K, 61 and vol. iii. 376-7; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 15-16 (no. 3); B, 125, ex K and MS 1; Hooke 1990, p. 47, bounds only

Comments:

HS, p. 280, spurious; PN Worcs., p. 2, a gross forgery; PN Gloucs., i. 257, 264-5, ii. 7, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 10 (pp. 33, 88-9), spurious; Cox 1975, pp. 42-3, obvious forgery; Scharer 1982, pp. 156-7, spurious; Hooke 1987, pp. 96-9, on a detail of topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 46-57, bounds cover all the places named in the abstract, except Abbots Morton; Dumville 1992, p. 42 n. 58, spurious.