Source: CharterS870

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Description

King Æthelred to Æthelnoth, his faithful minister; grant of a messuage (curtis) in Wilton, Wilts., associated with St Benedict's church.

Charter information
Sawyer 870
Birch ---
Kemble 665
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Wilton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 988
Scholarly Source Dating 988

Notes

*Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 86; Stevenson, Asser, p. 220 n. 7, on term curtis; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, p. 289, on bounds; Darlington 1955, pp. 16, 28; Finberg, ECW, no. 325, authentic; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 91-2, 93 n. 34, pp. 248-9, authentic