S 95

A.D. 723 x 737 (24 November). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Cyneburg; grant of 6 hides (cassati) at Bradley near Inkberrow, Worcs. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Cotton Nero E. I, pt 2, ff. 181-84v, f. 182r-v (s. xi)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 7v (s. xi 1)
4. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 15-16, ex MS 3; Hearne, Heming, p. 566, ex MS 4; K, 79; B, 153; Earle, p. 26; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 32

Comments:

B, vol. i. 221 n. 2, on date; Stenton 1913, p. 23 n. 1, possibly authentic; Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 439 n. 31, probably genuine (= Stenton 1970, p. 53 n. 5); PN Worcs., p. 166; Finberg, ECWM, no. 209, authentic; Cox 1976, p. 17, on place-name; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 17-21; Scharer 1982, pp. 166-8, genuine apart from dating clause, correct date probably 723; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 26, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 146, 238-42, 391, on beneficiary; on Bradley topography; Whybra 1990, p. 33

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    • + Donante domino nostro Jhesu Christo . Ego Æ∂elbaldus rex Merciorum terram juris mei . vi . cassatorum . cui vocabulum est Bradanlæh . pro redemptione animæ meæ Cyneburge trado . ut fiat ejus possessio in perpetuum . et cuicum