Source: CharterS630
Description
King Eadwig to the minster at Shaftesbury; grant of 80 (or 90) hides (mansae), with the bounds of land at Donhead (St Andrew and ? St Mary) and Easton Bassett, Wilts.; and at Compton Abbas, Sixpenny Handley and Iwerne Minster, Dorset.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
630 |
| Birch |
970 |
| Kemble |
447 |
| British Academy |
Kelly, Shaftesbury No. 21 |
| Source Used |
Brit_Ac |
| Archive(s) |
Shaftesbury |
|
Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
956 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
956 |
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Notes
*Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 34-6, 57-60, on bounds; Grundy, Dorset 1935, pp. 114-17, on bounds; Grundy, Dorset 1936, pp. 116-18, 131-4, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 281, authentic; Barker 1967, p. 85, unreliable; Forsberg 1970, pp. 41-2, on part of bounds; Dumville 1979, p. 8 n. 6; Keynes 1980, p. 62 nn. 108, 110; Jackson 1984, pp. 168-9, on part of Donhead bounds; PN Dorset, ii. 266, iii. 99-102, 113-24, 128-9, 131, 139; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 86-92, authenticity uncertain, not genuine in present form, but cf. S 582, 629