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A.D. 963 x 975 (? 971 x 975). Æthelwold, bishop, and Wulfstan Uccea; exchange of land at Washington, Sussex, for land at Yaxley, Hunts. (given to Thorney), and at Ailsworth, Northants. (given to Peterborough). The Ailsworth estate was forfeited by a widow and her son condemned for witchcraft. English

Archive:

Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 54v-55r(s. xii med.)

Printed:

Kelly, Peterborough, p. 275, Transcription of the Old English text of the charter; K, 591; B, 1131

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 112 (pp. 562-3); Kelly, Peterborough, p. 275-276, Translation into Modern English of the Old English charter

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 37 (pp. 68-9); Barker 1949, p. 102; Thorpe, pp. 229-30

Comments:

Hart, ECEE, no. 12, authentic, cf. p. 169; Wormald 1988, no. 43; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 123, Description of charter contents, labelled 17, p. 276-279, Discussion of the document as an authentic copy of an Old English original from 963-975, the relationship between Aethelwold and Aelfsige, and the status of the territories of Yaxley and Farcet; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 129-30, on Wulfstan Uccea; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 141, Charter which refers to practically the same land as S 525 and S 714, demonstrating archival intertia; Wormald, English Law, p. 193 n. 127; Kelly, St Paul's, London, pp. 214-215, Reference to document as being in Old English and having similarities to S 1243a, suggesting the latter was originally in Old English; Robertson, Charters, pp. 322-4; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, dates 971 x 975; Whitelock, EHD, p. 562; Davies 1989, on witchcraft aspect; Hill 1976, (= Hill 1976a)