A.D. 716 x 737. Æthelbald, king of Mercia and of the South Angles, to Æthelric, comes; grant of 20 hides (cassati) in regione ... Stoppingas at Wootton, Warwicks. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 103r-v (s. xi 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Heming, pp. 218-19; K, 83; B, 157; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 35

Comments:

Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 442, formulas and name-forms contemporary (= Stenton 1970, p. 56); Stenton 1918a, p. 257, authentic; PN Warwicks., p. xvii, cited; Stenton 1955, pp. 35-6, authentic; John 1966, pp. 105-6, authentic; Chaplais 1968, p. 333, on royal style (= 1973, p. 85); Hart, ECNE, no. 46, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 38, 42, 43, on place-names; Sawyer 1978, p. 160, cited with reference to place-name; Scharer 1982, pp. 176-9, authentic, date later rather than earlier within range; Hooke 1985, pp. 110, 134-5, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Scharer 1988, p. 57, on royal style; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 35 n. 99, 149-50, genuine; Bassett 1996, p. 164, on estate.; Hooke 1989a, p. 121, on woodland; Whybra 1990, p. 42; Hooke 1999, pp. 21-2