Source: CharterS961

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Description

King Cnut to Orc, his minister; grant of 7 hides (mansae) at Portesham (alias Portisham), Dorset.

Charter information
Sawyer 961
Birch ---
Kemble 741
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Abbotsbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1024
Scholarly Source Dating 1024

Notes

Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Stevenson 1912, p. 8, contemporary; Grundy, Dorset 1937, pp. 113-18, survey describes Domesday units of Portesham and Broad Waddon; Harmer, Writs, p. 576; Ker, Catalogue, p. 317, on witnesses, Canterbury script; Finberg, ECW, no. 620, original; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Stenton 1971, p. 414, cited; HRH, p. 233, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Forsberg 1973, on bounds; Keynes 1989, pp. 208, 220, 230-1, 237; Dumville 1993, p. 117, genuine, pp. 133, 134, difficult to categorize palaeographically; Lawson 1993, pp. 66-7, original, p. 169, cited, p. 170, on witness-list, p. 239, on formulation; Keynes 1994/1, p. 50, original, p. 52 n. 50, possibly a regional production