Source: CharterS585

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Description

King Eadwig to Ælfheah, his kinsman and faithful minister; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Ellendune (Wroughton), Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 585
Birch 948
Kemble 1184
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 956
Scholarly Source Dating 956

Notes

*Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 54-5, bounds describe Wroughton and Lydiard Millicent and probably Lydiard Tregorze; Darlington 1955, p. 85; Thomson 1955, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 278, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 34 (no. 163), authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 57-8, 66, 'Group Three'