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A.D. 930 for 934 (Nottingham, 7 June). King Athelstan to the church of St Peter, York: grant of land at Amounderness, Lancs. Latin with bounds

Archive:

York

MSS:

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 9 (S.C. 4151), ff. 4v-5r (s. xvii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), ff. 42r-43r (s. xvii)
3. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 1, f. 59r-v (s. xiv)
4. York, DC., Magnum Registrum Album, pt 2, ff. 78v-79v (s. xiv; ex MS 5)
5. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. III, f. 69r-v (s. xiii ex.; misdated 930)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii, 129-30; K, 352, ex MSS 3, 4 (conflation); Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi, pt 3, p. 1176 (no. 5); B, 703, ex K; B, 1344, ex MS 3; Farrer, EYC, no. 1, ex MSS 3, 4

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 104 (pp. 548-51)

Comments:

Nelson 1999a, p. 116; Farrer, EYC, pp. 4-5, quotes Stevenson's opinion that it is spurious, but accepts it as authentic; Drögereit 1952, pp. 60-1, spurious; Stenton 1955, p. 30 n. 3, possibly genuine but corrupt and obscure in places; Stenton 1971, p. 342, cited; Bullough 1972, p. 472 n. 39, on Latin vocabulary; O'Donovan 1972, p. 36, indiction, concurrent and epact for 934; O'Donovan 1973, pp. 101, 111; Hart, ECNE, no. 119, authentic basis; Whitelock, EHD, p. 548, discrepancy in dating clause probably owing to later tampering, charter may be genuine, certainly has genuine witness-list, on meeting-place; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 78; Sawyer 1983, pp. 286-7; Keynes 1985, p. 173, cited; Keynes 1986, p. 84, cited; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; Hart 1992, p. 443; Woolf 1998, p. 191, bounds "far too extensive to be an estate"; Karkov 2004, pp. 80-1, on imagery