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A.D. 852 for ? 878. Alfred, king of Wessex, to Athelney Abbey; grant of 10 hides (cassatae) at Long Sutton, Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Athelney

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, f. 59r-v (s. xvii; no bounds)
2. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128, f. 154v (s. xvii; part only)
3. Bath, Downside Abbey, Phillips MS 4810, pp. 34-38 (s. xviii)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. C. 241, ff. 53v-54r (s. xvi)
5. Northampton, Northants Record Office, Finch-Hatton 113, pp. 367-369 (s. xvii)

Printed:

Reyner 1626, p. 132; Mon. Angl., i. 202-3; Collinson, Somerset, iii. 197, bounds only; K, 309, ex Mon. Angl; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 406 (no. 4); B, 545, ex Reyner; B, 546, bounds only, ex Collinson; Finberg, ECW, no. 415 (pp. 123-5), ex MS 3

Translated:

Hugo 1897, pp. 102-3, ex MS 1; Bates, Two Cartularies, pp. 127-8, ex MS 2

Comments:

Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 94, spurious; Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 128, 191, date impossible; Stevenson 1904, p. 259 n. 4, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 126-9, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 8; Finberg, ECW, no. 415, authentic, dates 871 x 886; O'Donovan 1973, pp. 104, 108, not acceptable, impossible date; Whitelock 1979, p. 92 n. 5, forgery; Keynes 1980, p. 125 n. 135, spurious, elements of dispositive section recur in S 921; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 271 n. 228, not authentic in received form; Keynes 1992a, p. 159 n. 62, on date; Keynes 1994b, p. 1134, not acceptable in received form, but probably based on an authentic charter of 870s; Smyth 1995, pp. 266, 373; Pratt, Alfred, p. 36 n. 53, on attestation of ealdormen; Pratt, Alfred, p. 173, on reservation clause