Source: CharterS557

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Description

King Eadred to Wulfhelm, miles; grant of land at Marchington, Staffs.

Charter information
Sawyer 557
Birch 890
Kemble ---
British Academy Sawyer, Burton No. 11
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Burton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 951
Scholarly Source Dating 951

Notes

*Bridgeman 1916, pp. 90-1; Hart 1972, on charter-type; HRH, p. 229, genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 85 and p. 168, authentic, cf. S 556; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one, p. 18, authentic, very similar to S 556 but probably not issued on the same occasion; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, defends 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Hooke 1983, pp. 103, 105-6, 107, on bounds; PN Staffs., i. 8, 16; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on charter-type

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Bridgeman, Charles George Orlando Staffordshire Pre-Conquest Charters   1916 89-90 [no.11]