Description
Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, to Denewulf, bishop of Winchester, and the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester; regrant of the reversion of 50 hides (manentes) at Chisledon, Wilts., and 60 at Hurstbourne Priors, Hants., in exchange for 100 hides at Cholsey, Hagbourne and Bæstlæsford (Basildon), Berks.
Notes
*Plummer 1899, p. 175, spurious; Stevenson 1904, p. 151 n. 2, spurious or interpolated, p. 299 and n. 3, spurious, mentions Danegeld; Stenton 1913, pp. 13, 46, spurious; Harmer, SEHD, p. 97, very doubtful authenticity; Grundy, Berks. 1924, pp. 68-70, on bounds of Cholsey; Grundy, Berks. 1925, pp. 120-2, on bounds of Hagbourne, pp. 204-5, on bounds of Bæstelæsford; Finberg, ECW, no. 28, authentic; Finberg 1964, p. 135, authentic; John 1966, p. 45, on royal style; Hart 1970/1, p. 37 (no. 196), authentic; PN Berks., i. 6, 10, 153, 162, ii. 428, 497, 512-13, 516, 519, 524, 528, 531, 535-6, iii. 750-1, 756-7, three sets of bounds cover (a) Cholsey with Moulsford, (b) modern part of Basildon, perhaps with part of Ashampstead, (c) both Hagbournes with Didcot, Upton and (probably) Chilton; Gem 1978, p. 105, on Cholsey; Gelling, ECTV, no. 29, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 227-8 n. 1, on royal style; Dumville 1992, pp. 45, 46 n. 90, spurious in present form, but information deserves consideration; Dumville 1993, p. 81 n. 372, on Cholsey; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1137-8, may be authentic, possibly a survival from royal archives; Abrams 1996, pp. 52-3, on Chisledon