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A.D. 762 (Pentric, ? Pentridge, Dorset). Cynewulf, king of Wessex, to Eadwald, abbot, and Muchelney Abbey; grant of 8 hides (cassati) between the rivers Earn (now the Fivehead) and Isle, probably at Isle Abbotts, Somerset. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Muchelney

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 56488, f. 6r-v (s. xiii 2)

Printed:

Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 47

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 71 (pp. 498-9)

Comments:

Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 47, possibly authentic; Stenton 1955, p. 15 n. 1, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 392, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 286 n. 2, cited; PN Dorset, ii. 235; Whitelock, EHD, p. 498, probably abbreviated; Edwards 1988, pp. 206-7, entirely authentic, most likely refers to Isle Abbotts

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    • Carta Kynewlf regis de terra apud Yle. In nomine Domini nostri Jhesu Christi! Ego Kynewlf, rex Occidentalium Saxonum, aliquam terre porcionem pro remedio facinorum meorum libenter largitus sum ad monasterium quod dicitur Michelnie Edwaldo abbati, id est, octo cassatos inter duo flumina Earn et Yle, et ab occidente habet montem qui dicitur Duun Meten, coramque consiliariis meis quorum infria nomina scripta tenentur. Scripta est autem hec scedula privilegii anno dominice incarnacionis DCCLXII Indictione XV. in loco qui dicitur Pentric. + Signum manus Kynewlfi regis + Signum manus Herewaldi episcopi + Signum manus Kyneheardi episcopi + Signum manus Scillingi prefecti + Signum manus Hemeles prefecti + Signum manus Cerdic prefecti + Signum manus Heaheahfrithes prefecti + Signum manus Ethelrici prefecti + Signum manus Eoppan + Signum manus Wigfrithes prefecti.