Source: CharterS472

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Description

King Edmund to Wulfric, his minister; grant of 25 hides (manentes) at Grittleton, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 472
Birch 750
Kemble 381
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 940
Scholarly Source Dating 940

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. 150 n. 2, probably spurious; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 251-3, on bounds, survey is of post-Conquest date; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 249, authentic; Hart 1972, p. 129, on charter-type; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 32, 39, on MS sources, pp. 132-4, on estate