Source: CharterS516

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King Eadred to Wulfsige, bishop (of Sherborne); grant of 8 hides (cassati) at Thornford, Dorset, with reversion to the refectory of the cathedral community [Sherborne].

Charter information
Sawyer 516
Birch 894
Kemble ---
British Academy O'Donovan, Sherborne No. 9
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Sherborne
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 903
Scholarly Source Dating 946 x 951

Notes

*Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Grundy, Dorset, 1938, pp. 87-9, bounds follow later parish boundary; Forsberg 1950, p. 6, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 594, authentic, impossible date in postscript; Whitelock 1966, pp. 101, 102, impossible date and anachronistic royal style; Keen 1984, p. 218, on bounds, with map p. 219; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxvii-viii, 35-6, spurious; PN Dorset, iii. 324, 376-7, 379-81

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