Source: CharterS320

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Description

Ęthelwulf, king of West Saxons, people of Kent, and of all the southern people of the English, to Malmesbury Abbey; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Minety, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 320
Birch 444
Kemble 255
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Malmesbury
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 880
Scholarly Source Dating 855

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. 199, suspicious; Darlington 1955, p. 90; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECWM, no. 70, spurious, but authentic basis possible, dates 839 x 855; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 227 n. 1, king's name apparently error for Alfred; Keynes 1994/2, p. 1112, witnesses seem to belong to late 830s, may have been drawn up in Kent