A.D. 736 x 737. Decree of a synod under Archbishop Nothhelm concerning the succession of a monastery (at Withington, Gloucs.) built on 20 hides (cassati) by the river Tillath (Coln) given for the purpose by Æthelred, king of Mercia. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 25r-v (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 121; Hearne, Heming, pp. 464-6; K, 82; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585-6 (no. 8); Thorpe, pp. 23-4; HS, pp. 337-8; B, 156; Earle, pp. 31-2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 34; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 244-5

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 68 (pp. 494-5)

Comments:

HS, p. 338; Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, genuine; John 1960, p. 47, on legal background; Whitelock 1960-1, p. 1010; Finberg 1964, pp. 21-2; John 1966, pp. 85-6, on legal background; Finberg, ECWM, no. 21, authentic; Lapidge 1975, pp. 815-16; Whitelock, EHD, p. 494; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 59, cited with reference to legal background; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Wormald 1988, no. 1; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 130-4; Cubitt 1995, pp. 41, 80, 265, authentic; Bassett 1996, p. 166; Cubitt 1989, p. 30, two successive bishops of Sherborne are found in the fuller set of attestations; Whybra 1990, pp. 18, 36