A.D. 1017 x 1030. Writ of King Cnut declaring that he grants to Brihtwine 5 hides at Bengeworth, Worcs., for life, with reversion to Evesham Abbey. Latin

Archive:

Evesham

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XXIV, f. 34r (s. xii/xiii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 105 (S.C. 5046), f. 16v (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 29 (S.C. 3866), p. 42 (s. xvii; incomplete)

Printed:

K, 757; Harmer, Writs, no. 48, ex MS 1

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 225-7, authenticity uncertain; Finberg, ECWM, no. 340, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 79; Hooke 1990, p. 330; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 209, suspect; Wormald 1995, p. 122 n., perhaps basically genuine, but doctored