Source: CharterS933

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Description

King Æthelred to Sherborne Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset. The estate had belonged to Sherborne in Edgar's reign, been leased out for two lives and then sold to Ealdorman [dux] Eadric, and later bought back by Wulfgar, famulus of Sherborne.

Charter information
Sawyer 933
Birch ---
Kemble 1309
British Academy O'Donovan, Sherborne No. 15
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Sherborne
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1014
Scholarly Source Dating 1014

Notes

*Grundy, Dorset 1935, pp. 130-5, bounds describe modern parish of Corscombe, excluding Benville and Tollor Whelme; Finberg, ECW, no. 617, authentic; Barlow 1970, p. 30 n. 1, doubtful and irregular; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 89 n. 23, pp. 97, 115, 267, authenticity uncertain, cf. links with S 969; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxviii-ix, xxxv-vi, 53-4, may be authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 239, on formulation; Barnard 1994, esp. pp. 1-5, on bounds

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Transaction S933    King Æthelred 32 to Sherborne 1 Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset.
2 Event S933    King Æthelred 32 to Sherborne 1 Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset. The estate had belonged to Sherborne 1 in Edgar 11's reign, been leased out for two lives and then sold to Ealdorman [dux] Eadric 35, and later bought back by Wulfgar 33, famulus of Sherborne 1.
3 Transaction S933    Bishop Ælfwald 34 leased out 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset for 2 lives.
4 Transaction S933    Sherborne 1 to Eadric 35, dux; sale of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset.
5 Transaction S933    Wulfgar 33, famulus of Sherborne 1 bought back for the abbey 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset which had previously been sold to Eadric 35, dux.
6 Transaction S933    Wulfgar 33, famulus of Sherborne 1, with much gold bought back for the abbey 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset which had previously been sold to Ealdorman Eadric 35.