Source: CharterS387

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Description

Æthelstan, rex Anglorum, to the minster of Exeter, SS Mary and Peter; grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Monkton (lost) in Wyke in Shobrooke and Thorverton, Devon.

Charter information
Sawyer 387
Birch 726
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Exeter
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 670
Scholarly Source Dating 924 x 939

Notes

*Bond 1878, p. 7, possibly 11th century; PN Devon, ii., p. xiii; Robertson, Charters, p. 307, suspicious; Finberg, ECDC, no. 24, an 11th-century reconstruction of an original lost in 1003, pp. 4-5, on bounds; Chaplais 1966, pp. 5-9 (no. 2), spurious, written in mid 11th century in same hand as S 386, 389 MS 1 and 433 MS 3 (= 1981 XV, pp. 5-9); Blake 1974, pp. 51-2, perhaps forged in time of Bishop Leofric; Dumville 1979, p. 8, on terminology; Loyn 1980, pp. 296-7; Hooke 1990/1, pp. 200-2, on bounds; Hooke 1994, pp. 141-4, on bounds