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A.D. 811 (9 November). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, founds Winchcombe Abbey. Latin

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Winchcombe

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius E. IV, ff. 13v-14r (s. xii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), ff. 30r-31v (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 65 (S.C. 5007), ff. 1v-3r (s. xvii)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 252, ff. 8v-9v (s. xvii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 189-90; K, 197; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 301-2 (no. 4); Thorpe, pp. 59-61; HS, pp. 572-4; B, 338; Royce 1892, i. 18-21; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 107; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 447-9

Comments:

HS, pp. 572-5, questionable as to date and details; Stevenson 1904, p. 229 n. 1, dubious; Levison 1946, pp. 253-9, spurious but may be based on an 811 synodal charter and another earlier document naming King Cuthred; Finberg, ECWM, no. 56, citing Levison, spurious but genuine basis possible; Campbell 1989, p. 35, not entirely genuine but some authentic basis probable; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 41-2, 166, spurious, discusses history of Winchcombe; Whybra 1990, p. 10 n. 22; Cubitt 1995, p. 284, undoubted forgery but based on a genuine synodal acta of 811; Bassett 1996, p. 166; Foot 2000, II. 239