Source: CharterS276

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Description

Ecgberht, king, to the minster of Winchester, SS Peter and Paul; grant of 20 hides (manentes) at Droxford, Hants.

Charter information
Sawyer 276
Birch 393
Kemble 1038
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 826
Scholarly Source Dating 826

Notes

*Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 451, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 65); Grundy, Hants. 1924, pp. 74-9; Finberg, ECW, no. 13, spurious, bounds and many of the witnesses copied from S 446; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 178), spurious; Forsberg 1973, p. 12, on bounds; Edwards 1988, pp. 146-8, 156-7, fabrication produced entirely by taking clauses from other charters; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1111-12, spurious in received form, but forger has used charters of mid 820s, witness-list partly based on S 446.