S 608

A.D. 906 for 956 (i). King Eadwig to Æthelwold, his fidelis; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Wudetune. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, f. 110r-v (s. xii med.)

Printed:

K, 1183; B, 969; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 118

Comments:

Reynolds 2002, pp. 176, 191, on burial feature in bounds; Grundy, Hants., I, p. 64; Ekwall 1929, p. 26, suggests it is a lost estate in Offlow Hundred, Staffs; Ekwall, D.E.P.N., p. 85, under Cannock; Hart 1970a, p. 36 (no. 189), authentic; Dumville 1979, p. 8 n. 6; Keynes 1980, pp. 52-3, 62 n. 110, 'Group One', verbal parallels with S 594; Hooke 1983, p. 32, not Staffs.; PN Staffs., i. 56, (citing wrong ref.), not Staffs

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