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A.D. 725. Ine, king of Wessex, to the familia at Glastonbury; grant of 12 hides (manentes) at Sowy (cf. Othery, Middlezoy and Westonzoyland), Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 174r-v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 191r-v (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 14 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 839-40, ex MS 2; K, 74 and vol. vi. 226, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 93); B, 143, ex K and MS 2; Earle, p. 426, bounds only; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 495 (no. 903), ex MS 1

Comments:

Davidson 1884, pp. 11, 13-14; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 39, spurious; Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 36, agrees mutatis mutandis with S 249, for proem see S 298; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 116-18, bounds are of Middlezoy; Finberg, ECW, no. 379, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 29, 33, on place-names; Scott 1981, pp. 95, 198 n. 87; Morland 1982, bounds may also include Westonzoyland and Othery; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Edwards 1988, pp. 38-40, 48-52, 205, may be genuine or have some genuine basis, boundary clause an addition; on formulation; probably model for S 249; Costen 1992, pp. 41-2, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 31, 35, 38, 190, 205, 218-20, on MS sources; on estate history