S 1357

A.D. 988. Oswald, archbishop, to Æthelweard; lease, for three lives, of 1.5 hides at Upton in Tetbury, Gloucs., with reversion to the church of Worcester. Latin.

Archive: Worcester

MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 58v-59r (s. xi1)

Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 124-5; K 668.

Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 318, suggests identification; Finberg, ECWM, no. 134, authentic, accepts identification; Bullough 1990, pp. 19-21, on beneficiary; King 1996, pp. 106-7, 116 n. 107.

Notes: Rubric names Æthelmær as second life.