Source: CharterS798

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King Edgar to Ramsey Abbey; confirmation and grant of privileges and of land at Ramsey, Upwood with Raveley, Hemingford, Sawtry, Stukeley, Brington and Old Weston, Hunts.; Hilgay and Walsoken, Norfolk; fish from Wells, Norfolk; land at Brancaster, Norfolk; at Warboys, Wistow with Raveley and Bury, and at Slepam (St Ives), Hunts.; at Chatteris and Elsworth, Cambs.; at Whiston and Isham, Northants.; at Houghton, Wyton, Ripton, Ellington, Bythorn, Hunts.; at Graveley, Cambs.; and at Dillington, Great Staughton and Yelling, Hunts.

Charter information
Sawyer 798
Birch 1310
Kemble 581
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Ramsey
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 28 December 974
Scholarly Source Dating 974

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, p. 82, suspicious; Plummer 1899, p. 176, spurious; PN Hunts., p. 228; Harmer 1950, p. 346 n. 1, spurious; Drögereit 1952, p. 69, spurious; Chaplais 1962, pp. 92-5, forged by Osbert de Clare (= 1981 XV, pp. 92-5); Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 419, may list all the benefactions of Æthelwine's family, regardless of their date; Hart, ECEE, no. 18, spurious in present form; John 1966, p. 108, forged; Hart, ECNE, no. 9, spurious; Barlow 1979, p. 102 n. 1, incorporates details on abbatial election from Regularis Concordia; Hart 1992, p. 132 n. 51; Barrow 1992, pp. 67-8; Wormald 1995, p. 128, bogus; Wormald 1996, p. 123, spurious