London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A. XIV

s. xiii 2, New Minster Winchester

Type of MS.: Cartulary
Davis no.: 1047
Bibliography: Miller, New Minster, p. xxxix [F]; Tite, Early Records, p. 207
Related MSS:
Comment: After 1263. Bound with chronicle of the abbey? or with chronicle of Lewes Priory?
Provenance: Cotton probably before 1623

Charters contained:

S956x, A.D. 1019 (first week of Easter). King Cnut to New Minster, Winchester; restoration of 5 hides (cassati) at Drayton, Hants. The estate had been granted to a young man of Winchester who had wrongly informed Cnut that it was royal property. s. xiii 2

S374x, f. 72r: A.D. 904 (Bickleigh, Devon). King Edward to St Peter's Minster, Winchester; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Micheldever, Hants. s. xiii 2

S360x, f. 72v: A.D. 900 (Southampton). King Edward to New Minster, Winchester; grant of 100 hides (cassati) at Micheldever, Hants. With bounds of Micheldever, Cranbourne, Curdridge, Durley, Rigeleah (Slackstead), and Candover, Hants., and note, in English, that 7 hides at Worthy belong to Micheldever. s. xiii 2

S418x, ff. 115r-116r: A.D. 932 (Amesbury, Wilts., 24 December). King Athelstan to Alfred, minster; grant of 12 hides (cassatae) at North Stoneham, Hants. s. xiii 2

S470x, ff. 155r-156r: A.D. 940. King Edmund to New Minster, Winchester; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Pewsey, Wilts. s. xiii 2

S865x, ff. 156r-157r: A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Æthelwold; grant of 10 hides (manentia) at Manningford Abbots, Wilts. s. xiii 2

S845, f. 187r-v: A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelgar, bishop (of Selsey); grant of a meadow (Hyde Moors) in the northern part of Winchester, Hants. s. xiii 2