Source: CharterS307

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Description

Ęthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, to the Church; general grant of land and privileges with specific grant to Swithhun, bishop, for the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester, of 30 hides (cassati) at Brightwell, Berks. ('Second Decimation').

Charter information
Sawyer 307
Birch 474
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 854
Scholarly Source Dating 854

Notes

*Robertson, Charters, p. 275, suspicious; Finberg, ECW, pp. 203-4, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 21, on rubric, p. 28 (no. 79), authentic; Brooks 1974, pp. 231-2, unconvinced by Finberg's arguments for authenticity; Biddle 1975, pp. 132, 235 n. 46, suspicious; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 392; PN Berks., ii. 515; Gelling, ECTV, no. 23, authenticity uncertain; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 232-4 n. 23, based ultimately on an 11th-century forgery; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1119-21, esp. p. 1121 n. 3, basic form of 'Second Decimation' charters seems acceptable; Smyth 1995, pp. 6-7