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A.D. 778. Cynewulf, king of the Saxons, to Bica, comes and minister; grant of 13 hides (manentes) at Little Bedwyn, Wilts. Latin with bounds

Archive:

uncertain (possibly Bedwyn)

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 4 (s. viii 2; BM Facs., ii. 3; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 194)

Printed:

K, 133 and vol. iii. 383; B, 225; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 66

Comments:

Sweet, OET, p. 427 (no. 3); Stevenson 1914, p. 695 n. 34, cited; Stenton 1918, p. 443 n. 48, on witnesses (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 6); Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 151-5, on bounds; Crawford 1921, on bounds; PN Worcs., p. xxxix, on a reading; Darlington 1955, p. 5; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 194, copy made at end of 8th or beginning of 9th century; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xvii, opistograph; copy of s. viii or ix; Finberg, ECW, no. 194, original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 27-8, copy of s. viii/ix; Stenton 1971, p. 307 n. 1, contemporary; Whitelock, EHD, p. 497, contemporary; Rogers 1981, pp. 265-6, on script and orthography; Dumville 1987, p. 167, script is early-10th-century, possibly written at Bedwyn; Edwards 1988, pp. 59-62, citing T.J. Brown, 10th-century copy; apparently authentic; Dumville 1992, pp. 82-3, 109, 112, copy of early 10th century, discusses estate history; Kitson 1992a, pp. 13-14, on linguistic form in boundary clause; Keynes 1994b, p. 1110 n. 2, may be original; Abrams 1996, p. 175 n. 68, on possible Glastonbury connections of beneficiary, cf. Gl **** (S 1682)