Source: CharterS670

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Description

King Edgar to the church of Westminster, St Peter's; restoration of 5 hides (mansiunculae) on the north side of the river Thames between the Tyburn and the Fleet, Middx, in return for 120 solidi of gold in an armlet.

Charter information
Sawyer 670
Birch 1048
Kemble 569
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Westminster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 951
Scholarly Source Dating 959

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, p. 90 and n. 1, early 11th-century hand, reads like a genuine charter, wrongly dated 951, probably 971; Robinson 1909, p. 12, apparently genuine, original or very early copy, should be dated 959; Robinson 1911, p. 170; Stevenson 1912, p. 8, MS 1 not in contemporary hand; PN Middx, pp. 6-7, 113, 168, 173, and p. 222, on bounds; Gelling 1954, on bounds, with map; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie, but not original (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Whitelock 1975, p. 22 n., no basis for dating 971; Harvey 1977, p. 355; Gelling, ECTV, no. 225, authentic, note on bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 48 nn. 89, 90, 'Dunstan B' type, unlikely to be authentic in present form; BA Facs., p. 10, written in second half of 10th century, conceivably 'original', cf. S 1351; Brooks 1992, p. 22 n. 72, contemporary single sheet, tampered with to make it appear that the charter had once been sealed; Dumville 1994, p. 146 n. 71, non-contemporary Square Minuscule, not s. x med.; Keynes 1994, p. 177, spurious in received form, but perhaps based in part on a 'Dunstan B' charter; cf. S 951