Source: CharterS788

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King Edgar to Worcester Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of land at Worcester, vats at Middlewich and Netherwich in Droitwich, furnaces at Witton in Droitwich, and land at Nortun (for Hortun) and at Westwood near Droitwich, all in Worcs.

Charter information
Sawyer 788
Birch 1284
Kemble 574
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 972
Scholarly Source Dating 972

Notes

*Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, n. 16; Stevenson 1899, p. 42; Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 3, more or less suspicious; Stevenson 1912, p. 6 n. 17, belongs to suspicious group of charters; John 1960, p. 104, spurious; John 1960/1, p. 357, spurious; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 165, probably forged (= 1973, p. 49); John 1966, pp. 181-209, esp. pp. 206-7, crude Worcester fabrication; Finberg, ECWM, no. 303, spurious, based on S 786; HRH, p. 231, spurious, subscriptions identical with S 786 to end of duces; Sawyer 1975, p. 86, manifest forgery, based on S 786; Whitelock, EHD, p. 371, based on S 786; Keynes 1980, pp. 98-100, spurious; Hooke 1990, p. 148.

Notes: A list of Worcester estates to which the privilege applied is missing from all extant copies