Source: CharterS994

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Description

King Harthacnut to Ælfwine, bishop of Winchester; grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Seolescumb (probably Coomb in East Meon, Hants.).

Charter information
Sawyer 994
Birch ---
Kemble 763
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1042
Scholarly Source Dating 1042

Notes

Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 220-1, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 158, authentic; Chaplais 1965, p. 60 n. 105, compares script of MS 1 with that of S 1008 (= 1973, p. 42 n. 105); Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 191), original; Bishop 1971, p. 23, on script; HRH, p. 233, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136; Dumville 1993, pp. 132-4, on script of MS 1