S 1345
A.D. 983. Oswald, archbishop, to Gardulf, his kinsman; lease, with limitations for three lives, of 5 hides (mansae) at Abbots Lench, Worcs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 87v-88r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 187-9; K 637; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 55.
Comments: PN Worcs., p. 149, identifies as Rous Lench; Finberg, ECWM, no. 317, authentic, identifies as Abbots Lench; Hooke 1990, pp. 151-2; Barrow 1996, pp. 90-1; Bullough 1996, p. 18, on internal reference to the completion the new basilica at Worcester; King 1996, pp. 109-10; Wareham 1996, pp. 56-7, 58-9, on beneficiary.
Notes: A note in the MS identifies Leofflæd as the second life.