S 1347
A.D. 984. Oswald, archbishop, to Cynelm, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 2.5 hides (mansae) at Caldinccotan, in Bredon, Worcs., with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin with English and English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Add. Ch. 19794 (s. x2; BM Facs., iii. 32)
Printed: Earle, pp. 207-9; Hooke 1990, pp. 307-8, bounds only.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Atkins 1940, p. 9, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, pp. xxvi, xxx, xxxiii, compares script to that of Oxford, Corpus Christi College, MS 353; Bishop 1971, p. xxii, on script; Finberg, ECWM, no. 322, authentic, identifies as Kinsham in Bredon; Finberg 1972, p. 496, cited; Hooke 1985, pp. 65, 192, 193, 217, on details of bounds and topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 307-10, suggests it is a separate estate in Bredon to the north of Kinsham; Dumville 1993, pp. 20, 22, 29, 56, 75-6, on script, place-name probably an insertion; King 1996, p. 110.
Notes: Lower portion of chirograph (CYROGRAVVM); boundary clause added by different scribe on dorse.
Old English bounds only
þonne is þæs londes þridde half hid þe oswold arcebisceop selð cynelme his þegne to boc londe. Swa he hit him ær hæfde toforlæten to læn londe ægþær ge on earð londe ge on hom londe.