Source: CharterS139

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Description

King Offa to Ęthelmund, his minister; grant of 55 hides (cassati) at Westbury-on-Trym, Gloucs.

Charter information
Sawyer 139
Birch 274
Kemble 167
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Scholarly Source Dating 793 x 796

Notes

*Sweet, OET, pp. 431-2 (nos 15-16); Stevenson 1914, p. 689 n. 3, p. 692 n. 16, p. 696 nn. 36, 37, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 440 n. 35, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 54 n. 4); Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-iv, MS 1 trustworthy; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Stenton 1955, p. 58 n. 1, cited; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 180, MS 1 is contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 29-30, 41, on script; John 1966, p. 107 n., respectable; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Brooks 1971, p. 78, on reservation of common burdens; Stenton 1971, p. 289, cited with reference to reservation clause; Finberg, ECWM, no. 49, authentic; Sawyer 1978, p. 143, cited, p. 145, on estate; Scharer 1982, pp. 274-7, contemporary; Wormald 1982, p. 123; Brown 1986, p. 134, on script; Wormald 1986, p. 155-6, original, discusses background; Abels 1988, p. 53; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 38-9, on beneficiary, p. 175; Making of England, pp. 203-4 (no. 158); Wormald 1993, pp. 220-2, on background and estate history; Cubitt 1995, p. 274, contemporary; Abrams 1996, p. 243, on documentation for Westbury; Brown 1996, pp. 165-8, on script of MS 1.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Morgan, T. On the Wicii and their Territory Journal of the British Archaeological Association 1876 190-1