Source: CharterS571

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Description

King Eadred to Beorhtric, his minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Rimpton, Somerset.

Charter information
Sawyer 571
Birch 931
Kemble 1174
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 956
Scholarly Source Dating 956

Notes

*Grundy, Somerset, pp. 105-9, on bounds; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 117-18; Finberg, ECW, no. 468, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 29 (no. 87), authentic; Whitelock 1973, pp. 241, 246 n. 80, dubious; Dumville 1979, p. 8, on terminology; Keynes 1980, p. 48 nn. 89, 90, not authentic; Costen 1985, on bounds; PN Dorset, iii. 390, 393; Keynes 1994, pp. 175, 187-8, 192 n. 109, spurious in received form, but certain elements derived from a 'Dunstan B' charter, witness-list perhaps not to be trusted as it stands; Abrams 1996, pp. 137-8, 258; cf. S 570, 1512