Source: CharterS536

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Description

King Eadred to Æthelgeard, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Mackney and 5 at Sotwell, Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 536
Birch 864
Kemble 1161
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 948
Scholarly Source Dating 948

Notes

*Field 1905, p. 110; Field 1906, pp. 49-52; Drögereit 1935, p. 424, suspicious; Hart 1970/1, pp. 15-17, on beneficiary (referring to this charter as no. 86), p. 17 n. 3, basically authentic but with two interpolations, p. 29 (no. 91), authentic basis; PN Berks., i. 12, ii. 516, 529, iii. 751; Gelling, ECTV, no. 55, pre-Conquest fabrication based on same materials as S 517; Keynes 1996, pp. 86-7, not acceptable, discusses beneficiary