S 1393
A.D. 1038. Lyfing, bishop, to Earcytel; lease, for three lives, of 2 hides (cassati) at Tapenhall in North Claines, Worcs., and two hagas in Worcester, with reversion to the bishopric of Worcester. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: BL Add. Ch. 19798 (s. xi1; BM Facs., iv. 22)
Printed: Sweet, Second Reader, pp. 227-8 (no. 38); Earle, pp. 239-40, bounds and witness-list only; Hooke 1990, pp. 359-60, bounds only.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 48-52, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 345, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 496; Keynes 1978, p. 169, on chrismon; Hooke 1980, pp. 40, 41, 45, 48, on topography; Hooke 1985, pp. 119, 237, 240, on topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 358-62, on bounds, with map p. 359; Dumville 1993, p. 67, note on script; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 139.
Old English bounds only
ðis synd þa land gemæro into tapen halan. þæt is ærest of brada forda east in ða hegreawe. æfter þære heghreawe þæt cymð innan ða ealdan dic. æfter þære dic þæt to ðam holan wege. Ofer þone weg west riht to þære ealdan dic. æfter þære dic to þære bradan stræt. Of þære bradan stræt be þam grafe innan ða port stræt. æfter stræte innan dillameres dic. Of þære dice ende innan þa wællan. Of þære wællan in þa sandihte stræt. æfter stræte norð on bisceopes scirlett ofer bisceopes scirlett in lin aceran wege þam innmæstan. Of lin aceran innan ðone hege. æfter þam hege on brocc holes weg. Of brocc holes wege innan þone croft. Of þam crofte be þam gearde innan leofesunes croft. Of þam crofte innan salewearpan. æfter salewearpan in oter burnan, æfter oter burnan þæt cymð eft in salewearpan. And twegen hagan binnan porte.