Source: CharterS853

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King Æthelred to Ælfwine, his scriptor; grant of 6 hides (cassati) in the common land, comprising 3 at Brighthampton, 2 at Aston Bampton, and 1 at Lew, Oxon.

Charter information
Sawyer 853
Birch ---
Kemble ---
British Academy Sawyer, Burton No. 24
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Burton
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 984
Scholarly Source Dating 984

Notes

*PN Oxon., ii. 302, 327, 329; Hart, ECNE, pp. 189-92, incomplete copy of authentic charter; Gelling, ECTV, no. 282, authentic, original unlikely to have contained boundaries; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, authentic, estates seem to have been part of a royal estate at Bampton; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, p. 100 n. 51, pp. 135, 160-1, 243, authentic; Chaplais 1985, p. 44, on beneficiary; Dumville 1993, p. 93 n. 49; Lapidge 1993, p. 170 n. 39, on chrismon; Blair 1994, pp. 128, 133; cf. S 911 and OS Facs. ii, Exeter 16