Source: CharterS183

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Cenwulf, king of Mercia, to Abingdon Abbey; grant of privileges for land at Culham, Oxon.; Kennington, Hinksey, Cumnor, Earmundelæh (cf. Bessels Leigh), Eaton, Sunningwell, Dry Sandford, Wootton, Ginge, Denchworth, Charney (Bassett), Goosey, Fernham, Watchfield, Shrivenham, Bourton, Leckhampstead, Boxford, Welford and Wickham in Welford, Berks., with woodland at Speen, Poughley (in Chaddleworth), Trindlæh (lost), and Easton (in Welford), Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 183
Birch 366
Kemble 214
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 9
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 821
Scholarly Source Dating 821

Notes

*Stenton 1913, p. 23, spurious; Aston 1958, p. 76, on gebura tun; PN Oxon., i. 150; PN Berks., i. 233, 238, 254, 266, 272, 274, ii. 290, 352, 371, 375, 382, 389, 393, 402, 411, 438, 443, 445, 450, 453, 459, 462, 469, 472; Gelling, ECTV, no. 18 (pp. 26-7, 125), authentic basis, citing Brooks 'more likely to be the work of a pre-Conquest than a 12th-century forger'; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 14, spurious; Fleming 1985, p. 252, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 117 n., diplomatically suspect; Pelteret 1986, pp. 481-2, on gebura tun; Edwards 1988, pp. 189-93, spurious, but based on authentic charter of Cenwulf; Dumville 1992, p. 40 n. 55, spurious; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 9, spurious in present form but may be based on genuine 9th-century privilege.