A.D. 990 x 992. Record of a dispute between Wynflæd and Leofwine about land at Hagbourne and Bradfield, Berks., and at Datchet, Bucks., which was settled at the shire-moot at Cwicelmshlæwe (Scutchamer Knob, Berks.). English

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 15 (BM Facs., iii. 37)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), pp. 99-100 (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Junius 62 (S.C. 5173), ff. 1r-2r (s. xvii)

Printed:

Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 4-5; K, 693

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary; Stevenson 1912, p. 5 and n. 13, contemporary; PN Bucks., p. 234; Robertson, Charters, pp. 379-82; Harmer, Writs, pp. 47, 541 (no. 1); Chaplais 1966, p. 172 (= 1973, p. 56); Whitelock 1968, p. 127 n. 8; Stenton 1971, p. 395, cited; HRH, p. 236, probably original; PN Berks., i. 200, ii. 481-2, 519; Dumville 1979, p. 5, on a witness; Gelling, ECTV, no. 123 (pp. 62-3, 76), original; Keynes 1980, pp. 138 n. 186, 187 n. 115; Kennedy 1985, pp. 187-8, on lawsuit; Wormald 1986, pp. 160, 162-3, on legal background, dates 990; Wormald 1988, no. 49; Baines 1990; Keynes 1990, pp. 245-6, 249-50, on legal background; on solution to cutword, citing Chaplais; Keynes 1992, p. 76 n. 95; Lawson 1993, p. 69, cited; Kennedy 1995, pp. 167 n., 170 n., 171 n., 181 n., 182-3, on legal background; Sharpe 2003, p. 250, document refers to lost writ; Foot 2000, II. 129, 145, 249-50; Wormald, English Law, pp. 151-3