Source: CharterS910

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Description

King Æthelred to Eadsige, his minister (gerefa in rubric); grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Seaton, Devon, in return for 100 mancuses of gold.

Charter information
Sawyer 910
Birch ---
Kemble 1301
British Academy O'Donovan, Sherborne No. 19
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Sherborne ex Horton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1005
Scholarly Source Dating 1005

Notes

*Davidson 1885, p. 193, authentic, pp. 195-6, bounds describe eastern half of Seaton parish; PN Devon, p. 629 n.; Finberg, ECDC, no. 48; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions are consistent, charter probably genuine; Keynes 1980, pp. 114, 260, authentic; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxiii, xxix, lxii, 66-8, authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 240, cited; Hooke 1994, pp. 190-3, on bounds