S 1350
A.D. 985. Oswald, archbishop, to Eadric, his minister; lease, for three lives, of 5 hides (mansae) at Tiddington and Alveston, Warwicks., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin with English and English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 95r-96r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 203-4; K 651.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 32-6, bounds are of Alveston parish; PN Warwicks., p. 231 n., on bounds; Finberg 1972, pp. 519, 521, cited; Hart, ECNE, no. 64, authentic; Hooke 1985, p. 204, with map p. 205; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary; King 1996, pp. 105-6, 114; Wareham 1996, p. 57, on beneficiary; cf. S 1334.
Notes: Rubric names Wulfrun as second life.
Old English only
ðis synd þa landgemæru into Eanulfestune, and into Tidantune, þonne fehð hit ærest on Dondanforda. Of Doddanforda on cyngces broc. Andlang broces on þa dic. Of þære dic on þone hlaw. Of þæm hlawe on þone weg. Of þæm wege on locsetena gemære. Of þæm gemærum on þone hrygcweg. Of þæm hrygcwege innan westbroc. Of þæm broce on saltmære. Of saltmere on clægbroc. Andlang broces on þa stræt. Ondlang stræte on Strætford. Up andlang streames þæt hit cymð eft on Doddanford.
þonne is þæs landes fif hida þe Oswald arcebiscup bocað Eadrice his þegne, ge neor tune ge fir swa swa he hit ær hæfde to lanlande, mid þæs heorodes gewitnesse on Wiogornaceastre. Her is seo handsetene.