Source: CharterS346

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Alfred, king of the English and the Saxons, and Æthelred, subregulus et patricius Merciorum, to Wærferth, bishop of Worcester; grant of land æt Hwætmundes stane in London, with commercial privileges.

Charter information
Sawyer 346
Birch 561
Kemble 316
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Worcester
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 889
Scholarly Source Dating 889

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. lxvi and n. 3, genuine; Harmer 1950, p. 341 n. 3, may well be authentic in substance, although spurious in its existing form; Ekwall 1954, pp. 37-8, on place-name; Chaplais 1966, p. 15, on royal style (= 1981, XV, p. 15); John 1966, p. 45, on royal style; Dyer and Clarke 1968-9, p. 28; Stenton 1971, p. 260 n. 2, some ancient formulas; Brooke and Keir 1975, pp. 346-7, of doubtful authenticity, possibly genuine in substance; Whitelock 1975, p. 16, not free from suspicion but some genuine basis; Dyson 1978, on topography, refers to land at Queenhithe, identical to property in CCC23 (S 1628); Gelling, ECTV, no. 212 (pp. 106, 188-9), authentic, Addendum pp. 188-9, discusses Dyson's suggestions; Whitelock 1979, p. 77 and n. 6, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 227 n. 1, cited; Dyson and Schofield 1984, pp. 289, 296-301, 304; Dyson 1990, on topography; Vince 1990, pp. 20-2, on topography; Kelly 1992, p. 13, genuine basis; Lapidge 1993, p. 10 n. 25, ambitious Latin style which anticipates the charters of Æthelstan's reign; Smyth 1995, pp. 373, 376; Baker and Holt 1996, pp. 134-5

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Jones, Arthur Edward Ernest Anglo-Saxon Worcester Worcester 1958 91-2