Source: CharterS785

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Description

King Edgar to Bath Abbey; grant of 10 hides (mansiunculae) at Corston, Somerset.

Charter information
Sawyer 785
Birch 1287
Kemble 573
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Bath
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 972
Scholarly Source Dating 972

Notes

*Grundy, Somerset, pp. 201-4, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 515, authentic, bounds identical with those of S 476; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, 'Dunstan B' formulation; Costen 1983, pp. 29-30, on bounds; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. pp. 178, 182, probably authentic; Abrams 1996, p. 254 n. 72, on estate