Source: CharterS466

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King Edmund to Dunstan, his faithful abbot; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Christian Malford, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 466
Birch 752
Kemble 384
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 940
Scholarly Source Dating 940

Notes

*Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 255-9, on bounds; Robinson 1923, p. 60 n. 2, forgery (citing wrong B no.); Darlington 1955, p. 96, defended; Finberg, ECW, no. 251, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 446 n. 2, contemporary formulation; Hart 1972, p. 128 n. 22, p. 129, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 81, on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 201 n. 112; Reed 1984, pp. 287-91, 294-6, on bounds; Brooks 1992, p. 4, suspicious, Dunstan's name may have been substituted for that of a lay beneficiary; Hart 1992, p. 442, 'a regular chancery charetr'; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 35, 39, on MS sources, pp. 88-9, on estate