Source: CharterS811
Description
King Edgar to Eadgifu, his grandmother; renewal of a charter concerning 65 hides (mansae) at Meon, Hants., the old landbook having disappeared while in Edgar's custody.
Charter information
Sawyer |
811 |
Birch |
1319 |
Kemble |
597 |
British Academy |
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Source Used |
Birch |
Archive(s) |
Winchester, Old Minster |
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Source Information
Language |
Latin with Old English |
Scholarly Source Dating |
959 x 963 |
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Notes
*Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 196-205, covers land at East Meon, Farnfield in Privett, Froxfield, Steep and Langrish; Finberg, ECW, no. 92, authentic, anachronistic subscription of Archbishop Wulfhelm (d. 941) perhaps derived from the lost landbook; Hart 1970/1, p. 27 (no. 62), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, p. 71 n. 140, p. 101 n. 52, suspicious; Dumville 1987, p. 13; Lapidge 1988, p. 93 n. 31 (= 1993, p. 187 n. 31), on unusual grecism