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A.D. 793. Offa, king of Mercia, to the church of St Alban; grant of privileges and of 34 hides (mansiones) at Cassio, Herts., 6 at Heanhamstede (cf. Hamstead's House, St Stephens, Herts.) and 10 at Stanmore, Middx. Latin with English and English bounds

Archive:

St Albans

MSS:

1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 153r-154v (s. xvii)
2. Derbyshire, Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, f. 9r (s. xiv 2; lacks bounds)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 149r (s. xiii; lacks bounds)
4. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 29 Edw. I, no. 21
5. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6 Edw. II, no. 38
6. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Edw. II, no. 34
7. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6-7 Hen. IV, no. 7
8. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 2-4 Edw. IV, no. 9
9. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 4, no. 1
10. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 12, no. 6
11. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 32, no. 1
12. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Hen. VI, pt 1, mm. 7-2

Printed:

Watts, Additamenta, pp. 237-8; Spelman, Concilia, i. 313-14; Mon. Angl., i. 177-8; Alford 1663, ii. 669; K, 162; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 223-4 (no. 5); HS, pp. 478-80; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 1-4; B, 267, ex MS 3; Earle, pp. 396-9; Williams 1917, pp. 239-41

Comments:

HS, pp. 478-80, probably spurious; Stevenson 1914, pp. 692 n. 16, 702, spurious; Williams 1917, pp. 11-12, spurious; PN Middx, p. 65; Gelling, ECTV, no. 162 (pp. 80-1, 101), spurious, although first third of text may be genuine; Scharer 1982, pp. 272-3, spurious; Keynes 1993, pp. 260, 263, 272 n. 54, on MS 1; on dating; Cubitt 1995, pp. 273-4, blatant forgery but witness-list may be sound; Crick 2002, examines circumstances of forgery