A.D. 780 (Brentford, Middx, 22 Sept.). Offa, king of Mercia, to St Peter's Minster, Bredon; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Teddington, 10 hides (cassati) at Little Washbourne, 10 hides (mansiones) at Cutsdean, all in Gloucs., and 10 hides (manentes) at Bredons Norton, Worcs. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Add. 46204, verso (s. xi)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 11r-12r (s. xi 1)
4. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 78 (S.C. 5019), f. 33r-v (s. xvii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 122; Hearne, Heming, pp. 26, 456-7, ex Mon. Angl.; Hearne, Heming, p. 563, ex MS 4; K, 140, ex MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 587 (no. 12), ex MS 3; B, 236, ex K and MS 3; Stevenson 1911, pp. 202-3, ex Hearne and MS 2

Comments:

Stenton 1918, pp. 444-6, suspicious but some early features, may be authentic (= Stenton 1970, pp. 58-60); Robinson 1919, p. 27, of ill-repute; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 232-4; PN Gloucs., i. 4, 13, ii. pp. xi, 8-9, 12, 46; John 1966, p. 52, probably genuine; Chaplais 1968, p. 325, on use of Bedan indiction (= 1973, p. 75); Finberg, ECWM, no. 42 (pp. 40-1, 95), authentic; Harrison 1973, p. 116, on indiction; Harrison 1976, p. 116, on dating clause; Scharer 1982, pp. 247-9, probably spurious; Hooke 1985, pp. 84, 87, queries Bredons Norton identification, estate may be in Gloucs.; Hooke 1990, p. 31; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 153-4, 163, treats as authentic; Bassett 1996, p. 173, on assessment; Whybra 1990, p. 34