Source: CharterS884

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King Æthelred to Muchelney Abbey; confirmation of estates, with particular reference to land at Ilminster, which had been leased out by the abbey and then lost, and land at Camel, Somerset, partly purchased by Abbot Leofric with Æthelred's alms and partly donated by Ealdorman Æthelmær.

Charter information
Sawyer 884
Birch ---
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Muchelney
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 995
Scholarly Source Dating 995

Notes

*Stevenson 1899, p. 45, authentic; Robertson, Charters, p. 374, original; Stenton 1955, p. 15 n. 1, contemporary; Finberg, ECW, no. 520, original; Chaplais 1966, p. 21, original, compares script with that of S 880 (= 1981, XV p. 21); Bishop 1971, pp. xxvi, 7, scribe also appears in MSS from Christ Church, Canterbury; Whitelock, EHD, p. 372, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 120, 253, original; Edwards 1988, p. 207, certainly authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 55; BA Facs., p. 5, original; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on internal reference to the annulment of an earlier Ilminster landbook following the resolution of a dispute; Abrams 1996, p. 79, on Camel.

Edition(s)

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Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset Bates, Edward Harbin Two Cartularies of the Benedictine Abbeys of Muchelney and Athelney in the County of Somerset   1899 43-5 (no. 4)