Source: CharterS582
Description
King Eadwig to the nuns of Wilton; grant of 100 hides (mansiunculae) at Chalke, Wilts.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
582 |
| Birch |
917 |
| Kemble |
436 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Wilton |
|
Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
955 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
955 |
|
Notes
*Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 82-3; Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 25-42, bounds relate to the lands of Broad Chalke, Bower Chalke, Ebbesborne Wake, ? Alvediston, Berwick St John and Tollard Royal, with appended surveys of land in Berwick St John, parcel of land in Broad Chalke, and Semley; Forsberg 1950, p. 126; Darlington 1955, pp. 81, 91; Finberg, ECW, no. 274, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 49-50, treats as authentic, discusses date; Meyer 1981, p. 352, cited; PN Dorset, iii. 116, 123; Lapidge 1993, pp. 289-90, on witness-list; Kelly, Shaftesbury, p. 88, authenticity uncertain, bounds may have been compiled later, perhaps in conjunction with compilation of bounds in S 630, covering adjacent property