Source: CharterS509

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King Edmund to Æthelnoth, his minister; grant or lease of 5 hides (mansae) at North Wootton, Somerset, burdened with annual renders to St Mary's, Glastonbury.

Charter information
Sawyer 509
Birch 816
Kemble 406
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 946
Scholarly Source Dating 946

Notes

*Davidson 1884, pp. 20-3, on bounds; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 94-8, on bounds; PN Worcs., p. 106 n.; Barker 1949, p. 72; Finberg, ECW, no. 458, authentic; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 164, on connection with Dunstan (= 1973, p. 47); Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 40, probably authentic, p. 48 n. 87, on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 122; Vollrath 1985, p. 227; Costen 1992, p. 40, on estate; Keynes 1994, pp. 182-5, in some respects anticipates 'Dunstan B' formulation; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 34, 35, 38, on MS sources, pp. 97, 181-4, on estate, p. 237, authenticity uncertain, pp. 271, 307, 324; Keynes 1996, p. 20 n. 53, details bear comparison with S 1417