Source: CharterS579

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King Eadred (? for Eadwig or Edgar) to Burghelm, his minister; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Old Swinford, Worcs.

Charter information
Sawyer 579
Birch 1023
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Wells
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 951 x 959

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, p. 88 n. 2, dates it 958-9; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 93-4; Grundy, Worcs. 1928, pp. 72-5, on bounds; PN Devon, p. 546 n.; Hart 1970/1, p. 14 n. 3, charter of Edgar as king of the Mercians, with Eadred's name substituted; Finberg, ECWM, no. 279, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 381, authentic basis, witnesses belong to Edgar's reign; Sawyer, Burton, p. 30 n. 1, Eadred's name apparently subsitututed for Eadwig's; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 85, on formulation; Hooke 1990, pp. 162-7, on bounds; Hart 1992, pp. 449-52, witness-list tampered with; Keynes 1994, pp. 175, 192 n. 109, probably spurious in received form, witness-list seems to be derived from 'Dustan B' charter, with the intrusion of 'Archbishop' Oscytel

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Bridgeman, Charles George Orlando Staffordshire Pre-Conquest Charters   1916 92-3 [no.13]