Description
King Æthelred to Abbess Heanflæd and Wherwell Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of 70 hides (mansae) in the vicinity of the abbey, and grant of 60 hides (cassati) at Æthelingadene (East and West Dean, Sussex), previously belonging to Queen Ælfthryth. With note, dated 1008, confirming 29 messuages in Winchester to the abbey and granting 10 hides (mansae) at Bullington, Hants.
Notes
*Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, doubtful; PN Sussex, i. p. xlv; Harmer, Writs, p. 551, cited; Finberg, ECW, no. 149, authentic basis; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent in MS 1; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, note on witness-list; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 457 n. 6, dubious; Keynes 1980, pp. 104-7, on formulation, compare S 899, pp. 133-4, on witnesses, p. 258, apparently authentic, witness-list in K 707 is hopelessly corrupt, much better version in MSS 1, 7; Meyer 1981, pp. 343-5, cited; Meyer 1993, pp. 99-100; Kelly, Selsey, p. 28, on Æthelingadene