A.D. 716 x 717. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to the church of Worcester; grant of land south of the river Salwarp, Worcs., at Lootwic and Coolbeorg, for the construction of salt works, in exchange for salt works north of the same river. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 196v-197r (s. xi 2)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 442-3; K, 67; Thorpe, p. 15; B, 137; Earle, pp. 19-20; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 26

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 64 (p. 489)

Comments:

HS, p. 280, genuine; Stenton 1913, p. 23 n. 1; Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, genuine; Stenton 1918, p. 439 n. 31, probably genuine (= Stenton 1970, p. 53 n. 5); Forsberg 1950, pp. 155-6; Dyer and Clarke 1969, p. 28; Finberg, ECWM, no. 206, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 19, 34, 38, 45, on place-names; Whitelock, EHD, p. 489, treats as authentic; Hooke 1981a, pp. 135, 148, on salt industry; Scharer 1982, pp. 162-3, probably authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Hooke 1990, pp. 25-6, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 141 n. 122, genuine; Lapidge 1993, p. 292 n., has some claim to be genuine