Source: CharterS553

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Description

King Eadred to Glastonbury Abbey; confirmation of the grant by King Edmund of 15 hides (cassati) at Pucklechurch, Gloucs.

Charter information
Sawyer 553
Birch 887
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 950
Scholarly Source Dating 950

Notes

*Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 139; Warner 1826, Introduction, pp. cx-xii; Chadwick 1905, p. 187 n. 1; Robertson, Charters, pp. 336-7, discusses date of witness-list; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 199-219, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 4, 7, iii. 44, 49, 50, 64-8, 70, 72-3, 78; Finberg, ECWM, no. 100, authentic; O'Donovan 1973, p. 99, witness-list incompatible with date; Scott 1981, pp. 118, 203 n. 118; Abrams 1989, questionable; BA Facs., p. 10, forgery, draws on charters of mid 950s; Abrams 1996, p. 12, on production of MS 1 and its later transmission, p. 36, on MS sources, pp. 211-14, on estate, charter not genuine