Source: CharterS275

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Description

Ecgberht, king of Wessex, to the church of Winchester, SS Peter and Paul; grant of 55 hides (mansae) at Downton and 45 at Ebbesborne, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 275
Birch 391
Kemble 1036
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 826
Scholarly Source Dating 826

Notes

*Hill 1910, on bounds; Stenton 1918, p. 451, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 65); Grundy, Wilts. 1919, p. 149, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 84; Finberg, ECW, no. 199, spurious; Hart 1970/1, p. 25 (no. 26), spurious; Edwards 1988, p. 148, 10th-century fabrication, cf. S 229; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1111-12, spurious in received form but forger has used charters of mid 820s.