Description
King Edward to St Mary's, Evesham; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Upper Swell, Gloucs., in return for the abbot's gift of 6 marks of gold. The land had been forfeited by Erusius (? Earnsige), son of Oce.
Notes
Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Herald's Exhibition, p. 49; Robertson, Charters, p. 463, date unacceptable; Harmer, Writs, p. 566, on date; Oleson 1955, p. 153, spurious; PN Gloucs., i. 14, 16, 17, 228, ii. 14; Finberg, ECWM, no. 171, spurious, discusses bounds, and p. 236; Barlow 1970, p. 142 n. 4, generally considered spurious, p. 180 n. 1, unacceptable in existing form; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, on formulation; Wormald 1988, no. 94; BA Facs., p. 10, spurious, date in MS 1 now burned away, perhaps in antiquity, witnesses point to 1062 x 1065. Single sheet now differs from cartulary copy in several respects, e.g. internal reference to Abbot Æthelwig instead of Manning, names of several witnesses omitted.