A.D. 964 = 963 (Gloucester, 28 December). King Edgar to St Mary's Abbey, Worcester; grant of privileges for land at Cropthorne, Overbury, Pendock, Worcs.; Teddington, Gloucs.; Mitton in Bredon, Sedgeberrow, Worcs.; Northwick in Blockley, Evenlode, Daylesford, Dorn in Batsford, Icomb, Gloucs.; Shipston-on-Stour, Blackwell in Tredington, Warwicks.; Grimley, Little Witley, Knightwick, Hallow, Harvington, Bredon, Worcs.; Blockley, Gloucs.; Tredington, Warwicks; together with the creation of the triple Hundred of Oswaldslow. Latin with English

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

London, Public Record Office, C 66, 1 Edw. IV, pt 6, m. 23
1. London, British Library, Harley 7513 (s. xii1; BA Facs. 40; Hickes, Diss. Epist., plate at end)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 101, pp. 295-298 (s. xvi)
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 163-165 (s. xvi)
4. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 295-298 (s. xvi)
5. London, British Library, Arundel 26, f. 51r-v (s. xvi)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 58r-v (s. xvii)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 131r (s. xvii)
8. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. VII, ff. 27r-28v (s. xvi)
9. London, British Library, Harley 358, ff. 48v-49v (s. xvi)
10. London, British Library, Harley 6842, f. 80r-v (s. xvii)
11. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, ff. 22v-23v (s. xvii)
12. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6 Edw. II, no. 25
13. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 3 Edw. III, no. 23
14. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 9 Edw. III, no. 49
15. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 14 Ric. II, no. 10
16. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 15-17 Ric. II, no. 2
17. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Edw. IV, pt. 3, m. 3
18. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 1 Ric. II, pt 4, m. 3
19. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. IV, pt 1, m. 17
20. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. IV, pt 1, m. 23
21. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 15, no. 15
22. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 37, no. 6
23. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128 (s. xvii)
24. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128 (s. xvii)
25. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 24 (S.C. 4167), ff. 64r-67r (s. xvii)
26. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 110 (S.C. 5051), ff. 73r-75r (s. xvii)
27. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), ff. 20v-21v (s. xvii)
28. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 204, ff. 160v-162v (s. xviii)
29. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 204, ff. 190r-192v (s. xviii)
30. Worcester, DC., Add. MSS (in the safe) (s. xv)
31. Worcester, DC., A 2, pp. 21-24 (s. xiv)
32. Worcester, DC., A 2, pp. 176-177 (s. xv)
33. Worcester, DC., A 4, ff. 1r-2v (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 432; Mon. Angl., i. 140-1; Alford 1663, iii. 333-4; Hearne, Heming, pp. 517-22, ex MS 6; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 239-40, incomplete, ex Spelman; K, 514, ex Spelman; K, vol. vi 237-42 (no. 514), ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 617-18; Thorpe, pp. 211-15; Hale, Worcester Reg., pp. 21-4, ex MSS 31, 32; B, 1135, ex MS 1; John 1960, pp. 162-6, ex MSS 1, 12; Darlington, Cart. Worc., pp. 4-7

Comments:

Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 86-7; Taylor 1894, pp. 115-16, spurious; Napier and Stevenson, p. 85, doubtful; Maitland 1897, p. 268, some improvement in favour of the monks; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, pp. 133, 162, 185, spurious; Liebermann 1900, p. 18, spurious; Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, doubtful; Vinogradoff 1908, p. 84, spurious; Liebermann, Gesetze, ii. 638, spurious; Harmer, Writs, p. 267 n. 2, may be founded on authentic material; Drögereit 1952, p. 69, spurious; John 1960, pp. 80-139, 166-7, interpolated; PN Gloucs., ii, p. xi; John 1966, pp. 58-9, 71-2 n., 163-4, 237-43, 263-4, partly authentic; Galbraith 1967, pp. 100-1, spurious; Darlington, Cart. Worc., pp. xiii-xix, 6-7, spurious, absence from 11th-century Worcester cartularies suggests S 731 not then in existence; HRH, p. 230, controversial but agreed to be spurious in present form, subscriptions are probably consistent; Finberg, ECWM, no. 109 (pp. 56, 112), authentic basis; O'Donovan 1973, p. 95, should be dated late in 963; Brooks 1974, p. 229, beyond doubt a 12th-century forgery; Cox 1975, pp. 35-6, interpolated but based on genuine information; Sawyer 1975, pp. 85-7, interpolated at best; John 1977, pp. 192-3, authentic; Hooke 1990, pp. 145-7; Dumville 1992, pp. 167-8, in present from a mid 12th-century document; BA Facs., p. 11, on history of MS 1; Barrow 1992, pp. 69-71, on background to fabrication; Lapidge 1993, pp. 184, 187-8; Crosby 1994, pp. 237-8, on background; Wormald 1995, pp. 126-8; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 138, on Hallow; Barrow 1996, pp. 85, 97; Bassett 1996, pp. 169-72, on estates; Bullough 1996, p. 13; Wormald 1996; Whybra 1990, pp. 91-106; Hooke 1999, pp. 48-50; Wormald, English Law, p. 136 n. 74