Source: CharterS1170

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Description

Baldred to Aldhelm, abbot; grant of 100 hides (manentes) near the river Avon, round the wood called Stercanlei (cf. Startley Farm in Great Somerford, Wilts.) and at Cnebbanburg, in exchange for 100 hides (cassati) east of the wood called Braydon, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 1170
Birch 71
Kemble 28
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Malmesbury
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source August 688
Scholarly Source Dating 688

Notes

*Stenton 1913, p. 17, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438, of ill repute (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); PN Wilts., p. 73; Darlington 1955, pp. 4, 90; Ekwall 1962, p. 15, associates Cnebbanburg with Nabal's farm in Sutton Benger; Finberg, ECW, no. 186, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 17, 26-7, 31, 43, on place-names; Scharer 1982, p. 93 n. 47, dubious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 94-7, authentic.