S 1334
A.D. 977. Oswald, archbishop, to Eadric, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides (mansae) at Tiddington, Warwicks., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin with English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 96rv (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 204-5; K 617 (incorrectly includes bounds of Teddington, Worcs., see S 1554).
Comments: PN Gloucs., i. 4, ii, 45, 46, 54, 61; Finberg , ECWM, p. 85, Kemble wrongly prints bouns of Teddington, Worcs., with this lease; Finberg 1972, pp. 519, 521; Hart, ECNE, no. 63, authentic; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary; King 1996, pp. 105-6, 114; Wareham 1996, p. 57, on beneficiary.
Notes: Rubric names Wulfrun as the second life. See also S 1350, which seems to be an extension of the lease.
Old English only
þonne is þæs landes [III] hida þe Oswald arcebisceop bocað Eadrice his þegne ge ner tune ge fyr, swa swa he hit ær hæfde to lanlande mid þæs heorodes gewitnesse on Wiogornaceastre.