Source: CharterS960

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Description

King Cnut to Leofwine Bondansunu, minister; confirmation of 7 hides (cassati) at Hannington, Hants., obtained from King Æthelred in return for a weight of gold equivalent to one pound of silver.

Charter information
Sawyer 960
Birch ---
Kemble 739
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1023
Scholarly Source Dating 1023

Notes

Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 112-16, on bounds; Harmer, Writs, p. 574, on witnesses; Whitelock 1959, p. 83, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 154, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 186), authentic; HRH, p. 233, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 61, cited; Lawson 1993, pp. 66, 240 n. 11; Keynes 1994/1, p. 50, treats as authentic