Description
Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury, confirms a grant by Wulfrun for the monastery at Wolverhampton of land at Upper Arley, Worcs.; Eswich (? Ashwood), Bilston, Willenhall, Wednesfield, Pelsall, Ogley, Hilton near Wall, Hatherton, Kinvaston, Hilton near Wolverhampton, and Featherstone, all in Staffs.
Notes
Duignan 1888; Taylor 1898, spurious; Anscombe and Stevenson 1899, pp. 70-1, 149-51, spurious; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 110-15; H.M.C., xii, Appx. ix, p. 159; Whitelock 1959, p. 80 n., cited; VCH Staffs. III, p. 321; Finberg, ECWM, no. 331, authentic; HRH, p. 238, doubtful, but probably has a genuine base; Hart, ECNE, no. 90, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 379 n. 4, not certainly genuine; Keynes 1980, p. 104 n. 62, p. 252, spurious but modelled on authentic document of 990s, witness-list probably from a diploma of 995 x 996; Hooke 1981/1, p. 151; Hooke 1983, pp. 27, 54 nn. 70 and 71, spurious, but bounds based on authentic OE material, pp. 64, 66-85, discussion of bounds, p. 86, map; PN Staffs., i. 16, 17, 21, 22, 49, 92, 122, 123, 125, 127; Hooke and Slater 1986, pp. 23-5, on bounds and topography; Lapidge 1993, p. 413 n. 1, spurious.
