S 463

A.D. 940. King Edmund to Æthelgeard, minister; grant of 12 hides (mansae) at Exton, Hants., with note, in English, of grant by King Eadred to Æthelgeard, thegn, of a mill and messuage (haga) at Winchester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 106v-107v (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 1131; B, 758; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 97

Printed and Translated:

Rumble 2002, no. XIX, English extract; Rumble 2002, no. XX, English extract

Comments:

Grundy, Hants., II, pp. 110-15, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 377-9, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 58, authentic; Hart 1970a, pp. 15-17, 22, 36 (no. 184), on beneficiary and his estates; on rubric; authentic; Biddle and Hill 1971, p. 70 n. 5, on Winchester topography; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 275, 282; Keynes 1980, pp. 24 n. 33, 45, on rubric; on formulation; Keynes 1996, pp. 86-7, on beneficiary; Rumble 2002, pp. 15-16, no. XIX, charter probably acquired by the New Minster with the estate shortly after 980; Rumble 2002, pp. 15-16, no. XX, charter probably acquired by the New Minster with the estate shortly after 980

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