S 1340
A.D. 979. Oswald, archbishop, to Athelstan, his brother; lease, for three lives, of 3 hides (mansae) at Daylesford, Gloucs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Lost original (extant in 1643)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 99v-100r (s. xi1)
3. BL Cotton Vitell. C. ix, 130r (s.xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 211-13 ex MS 2, p. 562 ex MS 3; K 623.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 104-6; Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 72-4; PN Gloucs., i. 212, 213, 217; Finberg, ECWM, no. 127, authentic; Hooke 1985, pp. 144, 147, 211, on elements of bounds and estate history; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 152, the payment of church-scot reserved in the lease may have been owed to a church at Daylesford; Dumville 1992, pp. 41-2 n. 58, on estate history; King 1996, p. 109; Wareham 1996, pp. 55, 59, on beneficiary.
Old English bounds only
ðis syndan ða landgemære into Dæglesforde. ærest on Bladene be westan tune and be norðan andlang ðæs sices to bægenwelle. Of bægenwelle up to cynges ferdstræte. Andlang stræte to dunemannes treowe. Of dunemannes treowe andlang strete east to Nunnena beorge. Of ðam beorge west to Babban beorge. Of ðam beorge eft into Bladene be Suðantune.