S 101
A.D. 727 x 736. Æthelbald, king of the South Angles, to Wilfrid, bishop (of Worcester); grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Batsford, Gloucs. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Nero E. i, pt 2, 183v (s. xi)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 15v (s. xi1)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 170rv (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 34, 376-7; K 88; B 163; Earle, p. 304; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 39.
Comments: Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 442, contemporary formulas (= Stenton 1970, pp. 56-7); Finberg 1957, pp. 5-8, date and topography discussed; Finberg 1964, pp. 17-18, on estate; Finberg, ECWM, no. 15, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 392-3, with map, on topography; Cox 1976, p. 16, on place-name; Scharer 1982, p. 169, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 146, cited; Bassett 1996, p. 167, on estate.
Bæccesore.
+ Ego Æþelbald divina dispensatione rex Suðanglorum terram . viii . manentium quæ nominatur æt Bæccesore pro redemptione animæ meæ ut sit juris æcclesiastici domno Uuilfrido episcopo libentur largitus sum . notis limitibus hæc terras ab aliis litem discernit agris montis ad meridiem versus . haut parvam obtinet partem . ad orientem via regia septa . ab aquilone fluvialibus cingitur undis.
+ Ego Æþelbald rex donum meum confirmo .
+ Ego Walhstod episcopus donationi regis humiliter consensi.
+ Ego Uuilfrid episcopus .
+ Ego Oba minister .
+ Ego Æthelred subscripsi .
+ Ego Sigebed minister.