Source: CharterS850

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Description

King Æthelred to Shaftesbury Abbey; confirmation of 20 hides (mansae) at Tisbury, Wilts., and woodland at Sfgcnyllebar (? Sedgehill bær).

Charter information
Sawyer 850
Birch ---
Kemble 641
British Academy Kelly, Shaftesbury No. 28
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Shaftesbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 984
Scholarly Source Dating 984

Notes

*Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 90-6, bounds describe East Tisbury, West Tisbury and Wardour; Goodchild 1929, pp. 328-31; Darlington 1955, p. 94; Finberg, ECW, no. 318, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 29 n. 2, Winchester formulation; Keynes 1980, p. 73 n. 147, on sanction, pp. 90-1, 170, 243, authentic; Meyer 1981, pp. 335-6 n. 3, p. 350 n. 4; Jackson 1984, on estate and bounds; Keynes 1992, pp. 81-3, on estate history; Meyer 1993, p. 87; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 110-14, authentic

Notes: The text states that Tisbury was an early possession of Shaftesbury which was ceded to King Edmund 1 in exhange for Butticanlea. Edmund 1 gave it to his wife, Ælfgifu 1, who proposed to bequeath it to Shaftesbury 1 (perhaps as a reversion). But King Eadwig 1 insisted that Butticanlea should be returned before he surrendered Tisbury to the community.