S 693

A.D. 961. 1. King Edgar to Æthelwulf, his faithful minister; grant, for three lives, of 10 hides (mansae) at Kilmeston, woodland at Milbarrow Down, near Bishops Waltham, Hants., and a messuage (haga) at Winchester, with an annual rent and eventual reversion to St Peter's (Old Minster, Winchester). Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 55v-56r (s. xii med.; Golden Age, p. 169 [no. 172])

Printed:

K, 1231; B, 1077, 1078; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 8

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 110 (pp. 559-61)

Printed and Translated:

Robertson, Charters, no. 33 (pp. 62-3), part b only

Comments:

Grundy, Hants., I, pp. 159-61, on bounds of woodland at Milbarrow; Grundy, Hants., III, pp. 159-62, on bounds of Kilmeston; Forsberg 1950, pp. 210-11, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, pp. 317-18; Finberg, ECW, nos 96-7, authentic; Hart 1970a, p. 29 (nos 93-4), authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 559, what looks like a royal grant is in fact royal permission for a religious house to lease out its own property; Keynes 1980, p. 33 n. 54; Golden Age, p. 169 (no. 172); Abrams 1996, p. 292, cited; Keynes 1996, p. 24 n. 89, on Winchester context of transaction

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