Source: CharterS357

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Description

Alfred, king, to the church of Shaftesbury; grant of privileges and of land at Donhead (St Andrew and St Mary), Wilts.; Compton Abbas, Sixpenny Handley, Gussage (St Andrew), Tarrant Hinton, Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, Dorset.

Charter information
Sawyer 357
Birch 531
Kemble 310
British Academy Kelly, Shaftesbury No. 7
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Shaftesbury
Source Information
Language Latin
Scholarly Source Dating 871 x 899

Notes

*Robertson, Charters, pp. 284-5, dates it 871 x 877, it has highly suspicious features; Darlington 1955, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 212, doubtful features; O'Donovan 1973, pp. 103, 109, suspicious; Whitelock 1979, p. 78 and n. 5, forgery; Meyer 1981, p. 272 n. 237; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 272 n. 237, plainly spurious; PN Dorset, ii. 119-20, 278, iii. 103, 113, 114, 123, 139; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 29-30, spurious, forger has used a contemporary witness-list; Pelteret 1995, p. 167, cited; Smyth 1995, pp. 266, 373

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Robertson, Agnes Jane Anglo-Saxon Charters Cambridge 1956 24 [no. 13]