A.D. 880 for 887. Æthelred, dux et patricius of Mercia, to the bishopric of Worcester; grant of 6 hides (mansiones) at Brightwell Baldwin and 8 at Watlington, Oxon., to pertain to the church at Readanoran (i.e. Pyrton, Oxon). With a list, in English, of six serfs formerly belonging to the royal vill at Bensington, Oxon. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 28v-29v (s. xi 1)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 119-200, ff. 195r-196r (s. xi 2)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 60-3, 438-40; K, 311 and vol. iii. 400; Thorpe, pp. 133-4; B, 547; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 43

Comments:

Stevenson 1904, p. 300, if genuine, date must be 887; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 9-12, on bounds; PN Oxon., i. 1, 86, 94, 96, 116, 120, 121-2, 125, and ii. 484-5, on bounds; Stenton 1971, p. 260 n. 2, date probably 887; Davies 1972, pp. 469, 475, dubious; Finberg 1972, p. 510, cited with reference to list of serfs; O'Donovan 1973, p. 93, on date; Gelling, ECTV, no. 266, authentic, corrects Grundy's interpretation of bounds; Pelteret 1986, pp. 491-2, on list of serfs; Blair 1994, pp. 78, 112, 130, 133, 140-1, 198 n. 195, date 887 may not be reliable; Pelteret 1995, p. 168, on list of serfs; Faith 1997, p. 84, on list of serfs; Keynes 1998, pp. 27-8; Bailey 2001, pp. 112-13; Whybra 1990, p. 38