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A.D. 795 for 792 (Æt Beranforda [? Barford, Warwicks.], 4 May). Offa, king of Mercia, to St Albans church; grant of 30 hides (manentes), consisting of 12 at Winslow, Bucks.; 3 at Scelfdune sive Baldiningcotum; 10 at Scuccan hlaw vel Fenntun (cf. Warren Farm in Horwood, Bucks.) with the wood called Horowudu (Horwood, Bucks.); and 5 at Lygetune (? Luton, Beds., or Leyton, Essex). Latin with English bounds

Archive:

St Albans

MSS:

1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 154v-155v (s. xvii)
2. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 167r-168r (s. xvii)
3. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 168v-169r (s. xvii)
4. Derbyshire, Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, f. 1r (s. xiv 2)
5. Derbyshire, Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, f. 2r (s. xiv 2)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 149r-v (s. xiii)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 152r-v (s. xiii)
8. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, ff. 152v-153r (s. xiii)
9. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6-7 Hen. IV, no. 7
10. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 2-4 Edw. IV, m. 26
11. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 4, no. 1
12. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 12, no. 6
13. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 32, no. 1
14. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Hen. VI, pt 1, mm. 7-2
15. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152) (s. xvii)

Printed:

Watts, Additamenta, pp. 238-9; Mon. Angl., i. 178; Alford 1663, ii. 675-6; K, 161; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 224 (no. 6); Luard, Additamenta, pp. 4-8; B, 264, ex MS 6; B, 849, ex MS 8; Earle, pp. 395-6, in part; Williams 1917, pp. 242-3

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, pp. 692 n. 16, 702, spurious; Williams 1917, pp. 12-14, spurious but some small authentic basis; PN Bucks., pp. 68, 69, 73, 75; PN Beds. and Hunts., p. 156; Brooks 1971, p. 83 n. 4, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 144, spurious, discusses place-names, Scelfdune is not Salden in Mursley; Baines 1980, on bounds; Scharer 1982, pp. 272-3, spurious; Dumville 1992, p. 50, forged not earlier than late 10th century; Keynes 1993, pp. 264, 268, 269, 272, spurious, MSS 1-3 display progressive stages of interpolation in the Latin text, discusses date; Keynes 1994c, p. 27; Bailey 1999, on bounds in Brussels MS; Crick 2002, examines circumstances of forgery