Source: CharterS431

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Description

King Æthelstan to Æthelhelm, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (manentes) at Marksbury, Somerset.

Charter information
Sawyer 431
Birch 709
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 936
Scholarly Source Dating 936

Notes

*Grundy, Somerset, pp. 186-90, bounds appear to be post-Conquest; Finberg, ECW, no. 434, authentic, indiction 8 for 9; John 1966, pp. 53-4, on royal style; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 80, on formulation; Costen 1983, pp. 25-7, on bounds; Costen 1992, p. 44, on estate history, boundary clause probably post-Conquest; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 34, 35, 39, on MS sources, pp. 166-7, on estate