Source: CharterS812

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Description

King Edgar to Romsey Abbey; confirmation of privileges, including free election of a new abbess.

Charter information
Sawyer 812
Birch 1187
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Romsey
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 967 x 975

Notes

*Plummer 1899, p. 160, cannot be earlier than 970; Stevenson 1899, p. 42; Stevenson 1912, p. 6 n. 17, belongs to suspicious group of charters; Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 200-3, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 123, authentic; John 1966, pp. 181-204, esp. pp. 198-9, substantially authentic; HRH, p. 230, suspicious, no subscriptions; Keynes 1980, pp. 98-100, spurious; Meyer 1981, p. 349 n. 1, cited; Stevenson, Edington Cart., p. 24 (no. 45); Kelly, Abingdon, pp. lxxxv, civ-cvi, substantially authentic