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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:

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

Comments:

Cox 1976, p. 17, on place-name; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 17-21; Stenton 1913, p. 23 n. 1, possibly authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, p. 26, on estate; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 27, Reference to the control held by King Aethelbald of Mercia over Wiltshire and Berkshire; Whybra 1990, p. 33; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 146, 238-42, 391, on beneficiary; on Bradley topography; PN Worcs., p. 166; Scharer 1982, pp. 166-8, genuine apart from dating clause, correct date probably 723; Finberg, ECWM, no. 209, authentic; B, vol. i. 221 n. 2, on date; Stenton 1918, p. 439 n. 31, probably genuine (= Stenton 1970, p. 53 n. 5); Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic