Source: CharterS421

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Description

King Æthelstan to the bishopric of Crediton; grant of privileges, in return for 60 pounds of silver.

Charter information
Sawyer 421
Birch 694
Kemble 362
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Exeter ex Crediton
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 933
Scholarly Source Dating 933

Notes

*Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Chadwick 1905, p. 183 n. 1, date cannot be correct; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, in late 10th-century hand; Finberg, ECDC, no. 20; Chaplais 1966, pp. 11-12 (no. 10), spurious, forged at end of 10th or beginning of 11th century (= 1981 XV, pp. 11-12); Whitelock 1966, p. 102, on formula; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie, but not original (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Finberg 1969, p. 53-6, spurious, perhaps forged in 970-80; O'Donovan 1973, p. 111, on dating problem; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 77, cited; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxxi, 16, 30, on links with S 294, 422, 423 from Sherborne; Hooke 1994, p. 113