Source: CharterS1426

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Description

Ælfwig, abbot, and the community at Bath, to Stigand, archbishop; lease, for life, of 30 hides at Tidenham, Gloucs., in return for 10 marks of gold and 20 pounds of silver, with reversion to the abbey. The lessee is to pay an annual render of one mark of gold, 6 porpoises and thirty thousand herring.

Charter information
Sawyer 1426
Birch 929
Kemble 822
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Bath
Source Information
Scholarly Source Dating 1061 x 1065

Notes

Grundy, Gloucs., p. 245, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 155, authentic; Robertson, Charters, pp. 469-70; Finberg, ECWM, no. 175, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 511-12, cited; HRH, p. 236, probably genuine; Pelteret 1995, p. 167; cf. S 1555, a description of the services due from Tidenham.