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A.D. 670. Cenwalh, king of Wessex, to Beorhtwald, abbot; grant of 1 hide (cassatus) and two small islands, with a fishery, at Meare, Somerset. Latin

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 135r (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 150r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 3 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 838; K, 7, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 47-8 (no. 86); B, 25, ex K; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 7; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 365-6 (no. 644), ex MS 1

Comments:

HS, p. 164 n., spurious; Robinson 1921, pp. 49-53, authentic basis, but has undergone more than one modification; Turner 1950; Finberg, ECW, no. 353, authentic basis; Scott 1981, pp. 90, 187 n. 80; Carley, Glast. Chron., p. 88, identifies islands as Westhay and Godney; Edwards 1988, pp. 20-3, spurious, perhaps 10th-century fabrication partly based on S 257 and 1249; Foot 1991, p. 171, "completely fabricated"; Costen 1992, p. 38, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 31, 38, 46-7, 124-5, 131, on MS sources; probably a forgery but contains genuine 7th-century elements; on Godney; on Meare