S 364

A.D. 901 (Axminster, Devon). King Edward to Wihtbrord, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Fovant, Wilts. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Wilton

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 436, ff. 42v-45r (s. xiii)

Printed:

Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 24-5; K, 331 and vol. iii. 403; B, 588

Comments:

Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 80; Stevenson 1904, p. 304 n. 8, spurious; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 191-7, bounds describe Fovant and Sutton Mandeville; Darlington 1955, p. 92; Finberg, ECW, no. 219, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372, 542 n. 5, suspicious, may have authentic basis; Lapidge 1981, p. 78 n., possibly genuine base (= 1993, p. 66n.); Meyer 1981, p. 351 n. 6; Sawyer 1983, p. 290, on meeting-place; Nelson 1991, p. 60, on Osferth; Keynes 1993b, p. 314 n. 59, cited; Hooke 1994a, pp. 91-3, on bounds (with map); Keynes 1994b, p. 1143, may have been drafted by same agency as S 362

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