Source: CharterS783

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Description

King Edgar to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of privileges.

Charter information
Sawyer 783
Birch 1277
Kemble 567
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 971
Scholarly Source Dating 971

Notes

*Davidson 1884, p. 15, spurious; Stevenson 1904, p. 305 n. 7, forgery; Finberg, ECW, no. 513, spurious; Finberg 1969, p. 82, some portions may be genuine; Scott 1981, pp. 31-2, 12th-century forgery, perhaps by William of Malmesbury, pp. 203-4 nn. 122, 123; Costen 1992, p. 38; Abrams 1996, p. 37, on MS source, pp. 128-30, on relationship with other Glastonbury grants of privileges, pp. 56, 76-7, 131, 154, 166, 170, 179, 192, 209, 218 n. 5, on churches mentioned in charter

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Scott, John The Early History of Glastonbury: an Edition, Translation and Study of William of Malmesbury's 'De Antiquitate Glastonie Ecclesie' Woodbridge 1981 122-7
Townsend, D. The Chronicle of Glastonbury: an Edition, Translation and Study of John of Glastonbury's 'Cronica sive Antiquitates Glastoniensis Ecclesie' Woodbridge 1985 132-7