A.D. 949. King Eadred to Wulfric, miles; grant of 12 hides (cassati) at Bourton-on-the-Water, Gloucs., with bounds of 20 hides at Bourton, 7 hides at Maugersbury and 7 hides at Daylesford, Gloucs. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Evesham

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 6 (s. xvi/xvii; BA Facs., 43)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV (s. xii/xiii; bounds only; with introductory sentence from S 114)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 265-6; K, 426 and vol. iii. 429, ex MS 1; K, 1360, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 36-7 (no. 1); B, 882, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 95

Comments:

Taylor 1894a, pp. 296-7; Stenton 1905, p. 698, on MS 2 (= Stenton 1970, p. 1); Grundy, Worcs., I, pp. 9-11, 28-30, 181-2, on bounds, 'Daylesford' survey describes part of Adlestrop; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 20-2, 49-52, 165-6, on bounds; Drögereit 1952, pp. 62-3, doubtful; PN Gloucs., i. 3, 14, 17, 165, 196-8, 207-8, 212-16, 220, 222-4, on bounds; John 1966, p. 55, on royal style; Finberg, ECWM, no. 99, authentic; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, discusses 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, defends 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Fleming 1985, p. 252; Hooke 1985, pp. 87, 99, 210; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; BA Facs., p. 12, MS 1 a facsimile transcript of apparently original charter of King Eadred; Dumville 1992, pp. 34 n. 21, 41 n. 58, unimpeachable; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Dumville 1993, p. 142, early modern script-facsimile, original apparently written in Caroline script; Dumville 1994, p. 162