Source: CharterS795

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King Edgar to Ælfhere, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Nymed (Woolfin in Down St Mary, Devon).

Charter information
Sawyer 795
Birch 1303
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Exeter ex Crediton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 974
Scholarly Source Dating 974

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, authentic; Pope 1933, on bounds; Rose-Troup 1933, p. 58, on bounds; Rose-Troup 1942, pp. 251-3, on bounds; Wormald 1945, p. 122 n., on script; Finberg, ECDC, p. 13 (no. 41); Bishop 1955, pp. 195-6, apparently authentic; Finberg 1960, pp. 26-9, bounds cover part of Zeal Monachorum and most of Down St Mary; Chaplais 1966, pp. 14-15 (no. 15), probably an original (= 1981, XV pp. 14-15); Finberg 1969, pp. 55, 56-7, 61, genuine; HRH, p. 231, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 58, on endorsement; Chaplais 1985, p. 42 n. 5, on an emended subscription; Hooke 1994, pp. 172-5, on bounds; cf. S 684.

Notes: On the dorse is a later note stating that this is the land at Copulastan (Copplestone) which the priest Beorhtric gave to Crediton minster for the supplies of the monks

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
King, R.J. Coplestone Cross; and a Charter of Eadgar, A.D. 974 Transactions of the Devonshire Assocation 1876 353-5