Burford, Council of

Burford, Council Of

(Concilium Berghfordense), provincial, held at Burford in Oxfordshire, A.D. 685, witnesses a grant by king Berhtwald, an under king of Ethelred of Mercia, to Aldhelm and the abbey of Malmesbury (the genuineness of the MS. charter is disputed).-Smith, Diet. of Christ. Antiq. s.v.