Source: CharterS623

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King Eadwig to Eadwig, his faithful minister; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Braunston, Northants.

Charter information
Sawyer 623
Birch 978
Kemble ---
British Academy Sawyer, Burton No. 14
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Burton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 956
Scholarly Source Dating 956

Notes

*Bridgeman 1916, pp. 98-9; Ekwall 1925, pp. 153-4; PN Northants., pp. 14-15, on bounds; Jeayes 1937, no. 2; Beresford 1957, pp. 41-4, on bounds; Hart 1970, pp. 34-5, on hidage; Hart, ECNE, no. 4 and p. 169, reservations about authenticity, MS 1 perhaps a slightly later copy, possibly written by an Abingdon scribe; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 23-4, MS 1 appears to be an 11th-century copy of an authentic charter; Keynes 1980, pp. 57-9, 68 n. 128, 'Group Three', p. 68 nn. 130, 133, unlikely to be original; Hart 1992, pp. 445-9, on Eadwig's charters; Dumville 1994, p. 146 n. 71, MS 1 written in imitative script

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Bridgeman, Charles George Orlando Staffordshire Pre-Conquest Charters   1916 97-8 [no.19]