Source: CharterS391

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Description

Æthelstan, king of all Britain, to Milton Abbey; grant of 26 hides at Milborne (St Andrew), 5 at Woolland, 3 at the mouth of the river Frome, i.e. at Ye (St Helen's, now Green Island), and at Ower, 3 at Clyffe in Tincleton, 3.5 at Lyscombe, 1 at Burleston, 1 at Little Puddle, 5 at Cattistock, 6 at Compton Abbas, 2 at Whitcombe, 5 at Osmington, 6 at Holworth, all in Dorset; and a weir at Twynham (Christchurch), Hants.; river rights at Weymouth, Dorset; and 30 hides at Sydling, 2 at Chalmington and 6 at Hillfield, Dorset; and 10 at Ercecombe (Yarcombe) or Stokelonde (Stockland), Devon.

Charter information
Sawyer 391
Birch 738
Kemble 1119
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Milton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 2nd day of Easter 843
Scholarly Source Dating 934

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, p. 104 n. 6, correct date evidently 934; Robertson, Charters, pp. 300-4, possibly a fabrication; Finberg, ECDC, no. 28, identifies Ercecombe as Yarcombe, Devon, adjoining Stockland; Finberg, ECW, no. 580, interpolated; HRH, p. 235, dubious, but subscriptions consistent; O'Donovan 1972, p. 36, belongs in intention to 931 x 934; O'Donovan 1973, p. 105, spurious; PN Dorset, i. 16, 211, 250, 259, 301, 306, 311, 330, 347, iii. 219-20, 222; Hinton 1994, p. 11, on Ower; Hooke 1994, p. 114; Abrams 1996, pp. 187-8, on Ower, p. 235, on Twynham, charter is suspicious; Faith 1997, p. 21 n., on Stockland

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Robertson, Agnes Jane Anglo-Saxon Charters Cambridge 1956 44-9 [no. 23]