Source: CharterS284

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Description

Ecgberht, king, to the church of Winchester; restitution of 40 hides (mansae) at Alresford, Hants.

Charter information
Sawyer 284
Birch 398
Kemble 1039
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 824 x 833

Notes

*Grundy, Hants. 1921, pp. 69-77, bounds describe Old and New Alredford, Medstead and part of Wield; Finberg, ECW, no. 14, spurious, text and bounds identical with S 242, witnesses taken from a genuine charter of 824 x 833; Edwards 1988, p. 148, 10th-century fabrication; Dumville 1992, p. 46 n. 91, spurious; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1111-12, esp. p. 1111 n. 4, spurious in received form, some details derived from a charter of mid 820s.