Description
Edbirtus (? Ecgberht), king of the West Saxons, to Eadgils, his minister; grant of 20 hides (mansiones) at Butleigh, Somerset.
Notes
*K 178 suggests donor was Queen Eadburh; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. p. cxlviii, suggests donor was King Ecgberht; Finberg, ECW, no. 401, authentic basis, accepts that donor was Ecgberht, king of Wessex, witnesses recur in S 268; Scott 1981, pp. 110, 201 n. 103; Edwards 1988, pp. 56-9, substantially genuine, donor was Queen Eadburh; Costen 1992, p. 43, on estate, dates bounds to s. x2; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 32, 38, on MS sources, pp. 61, 76-7, on estate history, p. 76 n. 163, donor most likely to have been King Ecgberht.