Source: CharterS771

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Description

King Edgar to Ælfhelm, his faithful minister; grant of 30 hides (cassati) at Witney, Oxon., with appurtenant meadow.

Charter information
Sawyer 771
Birch 1230
Kemble 556
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 969
Scholarly Source Dating 969

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, doubtful; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 76-81, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 400-2; PN Oxon., i. 6, 11, ii. 316, 319, 323, 333, 489-90, on bounds; Gelling 1967, pp. 92, 99-102, bounds describe modern parishes of Curbridge, Crawley, Hailey and Witney; Hart 1970/1, p. 29 (no. 76), authentic; Gelling 1978, pp. 202-5, on bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 278, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, p. 35, on beneficiary; Keynes 1980, pp. 77-8, 'Edgar A' formulation; Bailey 1989/1, on detail of bounds; Blair and Millard 1992, pp. 342-5, on bounds; Blair 1994, pp. 11, 35, on topography, p. 78, on hidage, pp. 130-3, 198 n. 204, on bounds and estate history, p. 131, map