S 1367
A.D. 972 x 992 (? 985). Oswald, archbishop, to Ælfsige, his cliens; lease, for three lives, of a messuage (curta) and a croft in Worcester, with reversion to the bishopric. Latin with English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 74v-75r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, p. 158; K 679.
Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 316, authentic; Dyer and Clarke 1968-9, p. 29, on topography; Finberg 1972, p. 521; Sawyer 1975, p. 87, dates 985; Hooke 1980, p. 48, on Worcester croft; Hooke 1990, p. 154; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 137; King 1996, p. 114.
Notes: A concluding note (probably from an endorsement) states that after two lives (Bishop) Eadwulf gave the property to whomsover he pleased as earnignclande.
Old English only
Eac we writað him þone croft into þæm hagan þe is be eastan Wulfsiges crofte þæt he hæbbe hit swa rum to boclonde swa he ær hæfde to lænlonde. Dis is agan twegera manna dæg, and þa nam Ealdulf hit and sealde þam þe he wolde to earnignclande.