Source: CharterS591

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Description

King Eadwig to Ælfsige, his fidelis; grant of 25 hides (mansae) at Benham, Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 591
Birch 942
Kemble 1199
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 72
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 956
Scholarly Source Dating 956

Notes

*Stenton 1913, p. 42, cited; Grundy, Berks. 1927, pp. 42-4, on bounds; Chaplais 1966, p. 6, compares formulation with S 433 MS 1 (= 1981 XV, p. 6); PN Berks., i. 11, 267, iii. 658, 668-9, bounds may describe whole of modern parish of Speen; Dumville 1979, p. 8 n. 6; Forsberg 1979, p. 148, on bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 73, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 59-61, 66, 'Group Four'; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 72, authentic