A.D. 770. Uhtred, regulus of the Hwicce, with the permission of Offa, king of Mercia, to Æthelmund, his faithful minister; grant, for three lives, of 5 hides (tributarii) at (Aston in Stoke Prior, Worcs.), with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Worcester, DC., Add. MSS (in the safe) (OS Facs., ii. Worcester Charter; Ch.L.A., iv, no. 274; Birch 1880; Turner 1916, plates 31, 32; Brown 1996, p. 208, fig. 25)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 129r (s. xvii)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, p. 554, ex MS 2; Birch 1882a, pp. 45-6; B, 203, ex MS 1

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 74 (pp. 502-3)

Comments:

Birch 1880; Sweet, OET, p. 431 (no. 13); Stevenson 1914, pp. 692 n. 16, 696 and n. 37, unimpeachable'; Robinson 1919, p. 23, authentic; Stenton 1955, p. 57 n. 1, authentic; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 28, 40; Ch.L.A., iv, no. 274; p. xviii, contemporaneous, probably original; on script; Brooks 1971, p. 78, on reservation clause; Stenton 1971, pp. 287, 292, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 218, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 464, cited; Sawyer 1978, p. 102, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 502, undoubtedly genuine; Scharer 1982, p. 256; Wormald 1982, p. 123, cited; Brown 1986, p. 132, on script; Wormald 1986, pp. 156-7, may be forgery based on S 58; Abels 1988, p. 53; Hooke 1990, pp. 63-5, on bounds, with map p. 64; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 38, 154-5, on beneficiary; may be a revised copy, not necessarily forged, of a lost charter of 770, itself an updated version of S 58; Wormald 1993, pp. 20-2, restates argument that S 59 is probably a forgery; Brown 1996, p. 165, on script, associates with S 114.