Source: CharterS443
Description
King Æthelstan to Frithestan, bishop of Winchester; confirmation of privileges and of a grant to Taunton of 4 hides (mansae) at Withiel Florey, Somerset, and 3 at Cearn (? Charmouth, Dorset).
Charter information
| Sawyer |
443 |
| Birch |
727 |
| Kemble |
374 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Winchester, Old Minster |
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Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
938 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
938 |
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Notes
*Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 a later imitation; Napier and Stevenson, p. 67, dubious; Plummer 1899, pp. 39, 141, spurious; Robertson, Charters, p. 297, spurious or wrongly dated; Forsberg 1942, on bounds, confirms identification of Withiel Florey and suggests that Cearn is Charmouth; Stenton 1955, p. 27, imitative copy, probably of 11th century, but the text is spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 438, spurious, bounds as in S 254, cf. chapter vii; Whitelock, EHD, p. 373, spurious