Source: CharterS838

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Description

King Æthelred to Tavistock, St Mary's Abbey, Devon; grant of privileges, including free election of a new abbot.

Charter information
Sawyer 838
Birch ---
Kemble 629
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Tavistock
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 629
Scholarly Source Dating 629

Notes

*Plummer 1899, p. 179, spurious; Finberg 1943, authentic; Finberg 1951, pp. 278-83, authentic; Finberg, ECDC, no. 43; John 1966, p. 208 n., no reason to doubt authenticity; HRH, p. 231, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 29, authentic, Winchester formulation; Keynes 1980, p. 97 n. 43, p. 101 n. 52, p. 180 n. 101, p. 239, spurious; Hooke 1994, pp. 19-20, 115-16, on estates; Kelly, Abingdon, pp. xci-ii, no good reason to question authenticity.