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? A.D 743 x 745. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Milred, bishop, and St Peter's Minster, Worcester; remission of the toll due on two ships at London. English

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Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, f. 20r (s. xi 1)

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Hearne, Heming, pp. 45-6; K, 95; Thorpe, pp. 28-9; B, 171; Earle, pp. 41-2

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 1 (pp. 2-3)

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Turner 1916, p. xxxiii, citing Stevenson, dubious; Vleeskruyer 1953, p. 47; Robertson, Charters, pp. 259-60, a translation from a Latin original; Dyer and Clarke 1969, p. 28; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 367, probably authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 199, authentic; Scharer 1982, pp. 201-2, authentic basis, but not genuine in present form; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Cubitt 1989, p. 30, two successive bishops of Worcester attest; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 146-7, 328; Whybra 1990, p. 34; Kelly 1992, on ship-toll privileges; John of Worcester, pp. 192-3 n. 4, on the difficulty that the witnesses include Milred's predecessor as bishop of Worcester.; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc, on diplomatic; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 15, Charter granting privileges to ecclesiastic institutions and persons related to London by King Aethelbald of Mercia, p. 113, Charter showing actions taken by Bishop Ingwald of London, p. 150, Charter in which King Aethelbald of Mercia grants remission of tolls to a religious house, as occurs in S 103a and 1788, p. 152, Example of a toll-privilege charter formulated in such a way as to make it more practical and transportable, as seen through its usage of the vernacular