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A.D. 883. (a) Æthelred, ealdorman of Mercia, with the consent of King Alfred and the whole Mercian witan, to Berkeley Abbey; grant of privileges in exchange for 12 hides at Stoke Bishop, Gloucs., and 30 gold mancuses. (b) Æthelred, ealdorman, to Cynulf, son of Ceoluht; lease, for three lives, of the land at Stoke Bishop, with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin and English with English bounds. Latin and English with English bounds

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Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 50r-51r (s. xi 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 129r(s. xvii; incomplete; from lost original)

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 44; Harmer, SEHD, no. 12 (pp. 20-2, 43-4); Hearne, Heming, pp. 103-6, ex MS 2, p. 556, ex MS 3; Thorpe, pp. 129-32; K, 313; B, 551

Translated:

Harmer, SEHD, no. 12 (pp. 20-2, 43-4), English only; Taylor 1895, pp. 83-4; Thorpe, pp. 129-32, English only

Comments:

PN Gloucs., i. 3, iii. 132, 134, 143-5, on bounds; Dumville 1992, p. 7, authenticity and authority of date not yet properly established; Bullough 1996, p. 11 n. 39, on estate; Keynes 1998, pp. 20, 27; Wormald 1993, p. 20; Foot 2000, II. 40-1; Whybra 1990, p. 44; Nelson 1986a, p. 60; Walker 2000, p. 76, on Æthelred of Mercia; Finberg, ECWM, no. 83, authentic; Harmer, SEHD, pp. 103-5; Faith 1997, p. 104, cited; Wormald, English Law, p. 108 n. 376; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 137, 176, may mark the end of a dispute between Berkeley and the see of Worcester; Kelly, St Paul's, London, pp. 156-157, Charter in which an Abbot Aethelun attests, the same name as is found in S 367a as the only witness named that differs from S 367, as well as also featuring an Ealdorman Aethelfrith like S 367a; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 223-31, on bounds; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 228 n. 1, on Æthelred and Alfred; Stenton 1971, p. 260 n. 2, cited; Taylor 1894a, pp. 301-2, on bounds; Wilson 1959, pp. 302-4, on language; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 337, Charter in which Ealdorman Æthelferth, the beneficiary of S 371, appears, supporting the latter's basis on authentic documents; Finberg 1972, pp. 423, 499, on boundary marks; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, authentic; Meyvaert 1996, p. 879, use of word 'bibliotheca' suggests spurious; Everett 1961, on bounds; Kerslake 1883, on bounds; Lindley 1959