Source: CharterS735

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Description

King Edgar to Ęscwig, abbot of St Peter's, Bath; grant of 7.5 hides (mansiunculae) at Stanton Prior, Somerset.

Charter information
Sawyer 735
Birch 1164
Kemble 516
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Bath
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 965
Scholarly Source Dating 965

Notes

*Grundy, Somerset, pp. 193-5, on bounds; Turner 1951, on place-names; Finberg, ECW, no. 491, authentic; HRH, p. 230, ? genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, on charter-type; Costen 1983, pp. 30-1, on bounds; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. p. 177, probably authentic