Source: CharterS535

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Description

King Eadred to Ćlfwynn, a religious woman; grant of 6 hides (mansae), equated with 6 sulungs, at Wickhambreux, Kent, in return for 2 pounds of purest gold.

Charter information
Sawyer 535
Birch 869
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 948
Scholarly Source Dating 948

Notes

*Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9, original; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 277-81, on place-names; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 original, written by Winchester scribe, also responsible for S 497, 510, 528, 552 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Finberg 1972, p. 415, on units of assessment; Sawyer, Burton, p. 25, original; PN Berks., i. 205, on element in bounds; Keynes 1980, pp. 16, 33 n. 55, original, product of 'Edmund C', record of payment seems to have been inserted as an afterthought; Chaplais 1985, p. 43 n. 6, boundary clause written later than subscriptions in a space left blank; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script