Source: CharterS892

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Description

King Æthelred to Leofwine, dux: grant of 7.5 hides (tributarii), comprising 3 hides (mansae) at Southam and 4.5 hides (manentes) at Ladbroke and Radbourne, Warwicks. The land had been forfeited by Wistan for murder.

Charter information
Sawyer 892
Birch ---
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Coventry
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 998
Scholarly Source Dating 998

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, pp. 110-22, authentic; PN Warwicks., p. 135 n., on bounds of Ladbroke and Radbourne, pp. 144-5 n., on bounds of Southam; Hart 1970/1, p. 23, on endorsement; Hart, ECNE, no. 66, original; Keynes 1980, p. 104 n. 62, p. 135 n. 171, p. 256, authentic and original; Wormald 1988, no. 61; BA Facs., p. 5, unusual aspect but seems to be an original; Dumville 1994, p. 161 n. 151, script is old-fashioned, cf. also S 898; Hooke 1996, p. 112