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? A.D 743 x 745. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Milred, bishop, and St Peter's Minster, Worcester; remission of the toll due on two ships at London. English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 20r (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Thorpe, pp. 28-9; Earle, pp. 41-2; Hearne, Heming, pp. 45-6; K, 95; B, 171

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 1 (pp. 2-3)

Comments:

Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 15, Charter granting privileges to ecclesiastic institutions and persons related to London by King Aethelbald of Mercia, p. 113, Charter showing actions taken by Bishop Ingwald of London, p. 150, Charter in which King Aethelbald of Mercia grants remission of tolls to a religious house, as occurs in S 103a and 1788, p. 152, Example of a toll-privilege charter formulated in such a way as to make it more practical and transportable, as seen through its usage of the vernacular; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Dyer and Clarke 1969, p. 28; Cubitt 1989, p. 30, two successive bishops of Worcester attest; Whybra 1990, p. 34; Vleeskruyer 1953, p. 47; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 146-7, 328; John of Worcester, pp. 192-3 n. 4, on the difficulty that the witnesses include Milred's predecessor as bishop of Worcester.; Gelling, ECTV, no. 199, authentic; Scharer 1982, pp. 201-2, authentic basis, but not genuine in present form; Robertson, Charters, pp. 259-60, a translation from a Latin original; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 367, probably authentic; Kelly 1992, on ship-toll privileges; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc, on diplomatic; Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, dubious