S 399

A.D. 928 (Exeter, Easter Day, 16 April). King Athelstan to Ælfflæd; grant of 20 hides (mansiones) at Winterburna. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 206r-v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 240 v (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 102 (see Abrams 1996, p. 34)

Printed:

B, 664, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 670-1 (no. 1235), ex MS 1.

Comments:

Grundy, Dorset, VII, p. 69, not in Dorset; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. p. ccxxiv (no. 1235), identifies as Winterborne Monkton, Wilts; Finberg, ECW, no. 229, authentic; Whitelock 1966, p. 100, note on identity of beneficiary; Keynes 1980, pp. 41 n. 71, 43, 'Æthelstan A' charter; Scott 1981, pp. 112, 201 n. 108; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; BA Facs., p. 9, cited; Dumville 1994, pp. 158-9; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 34, 35, 39, 249-52, on MS sources; on estate, identification remains uncertain; Foot 2000, II. 94

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    • + Afflante per cunctam triquadri orbis latitudinem gibonifero sacrosancti flaminis incendio salutifera animarum gaudia ac multifida donorum spiramina prærogante quibus humane inprobitatis rubigo consumitur . felicitasque æterna ejus munere adq