Description
King Edgar to Worcester, St Mary's Abbey; grant of privileges for land at Cropthorne, Overbury, Pendock, Worcs.; Teddington, Gloucs.; Mitton in Bredon, Sedgeberrow, Worcs.; Northwick in Blockley, Evenlode, Daylesford, Dorn in Batsford, Icomb, Gloucs.; Shipston-on-Stour, Blackwell in Tredington, Warwicks.; Grimley, Little Witley, Knightwick, Hallow, Harvington, Bredon, Worcs.; Blockley, Gloucs.; Tredington, Warwicks; together with the creation of the triple Hundred of Oswaldslow.
Notes
*Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 86-7; Taylor 1894, pp. 115-16, spurious; Napier and Stevenson, p. 85, doubtful; Maitland 1897, p. 268, some improvement in favour of the monks; Plummer 1899, pp. 133, 162, 185, spurious; Liebermann 1900, p. 18, spurious; Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, doubtful; Vinogradoff 1908, p. 84, spurious; Liebermann, Gesetze, ii. 638, spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 267 n. 2, may be founded on authentic material; Drögereit 1952, p. 69, spurious; John 1960, pp. 80-139, 166-7, interpolated; PN Gloucs., ii, p. xi; John 1966, pp. 58-9, 71-2 n., pp. 163-4, 237-43, 263-4, partly authentic; Galbraith 1967, pp. 100-1, spurious; Darlington, Cart. Worcs., pp. xiii-xix, 6-7, spurious, absence from 11th-century Worcester cartularies suggests S 731 not then in existence; HRH, p. 230, controversial but agreed to be spurious in present form, subscriptions are probably consistent; Finberg, ECWM, no. 109 (pp. 56, 112), authentic basis; O'Donovan 1973, p. 95, should be dated late in 963; Brooks 1974, p. 229, beyond doubt a 12th-century forgery; Cox 1975, pp. 35-6, interpolated but based on genuine information; Sawyer 1975, pp. 85-7, interpolated at best; John 1977, pp. 192-3, authentic; Hooke 1990, pp. 145-7; Dumville 1992, pp. 167-8, in present from a mid 12th-century document; BA Facs., p. 11, on history of MS 1; Barrow 1992, pp. 69-71, on background to fabrication; Lapidge 1993, pp. 184, 187-8; Crosby 1994, pp. 237-8, on background; Wormald 1995, pp. 126-8; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 138, on Hallow; Barrow 1996, pp. 85, 97; Bassett 1996, pp. 169-72, on estates; Bullough 1996, p. 13; Wormald 1996