Source: CharterS931

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Description

King Æthelred to Northman, miles; grant of 3.5 hides (cassati) at Twywell, Northants.

Charter information
Sawyer 931
Birch ---
Kemble 1308
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Thorney
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1013
Scholarly Source Dating 1013

Notes

*PN Northants., p. 188 n., on bounds; Whitelock 1959, p. 82, on beneficiary; Hart, ECEE, pp. 194-8, authentic; Whitelock 1969, pp. 113-14, must have been modelled on an earlier charter, corrects a reading in Hart's edition; Barlow 1970, p. 30 n. 1, obviously manufactured, witness-list cannot be later than 1012; Hart 1970, p. 34, on hidage; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions difficult, but probably a genuine base; Hart, ECNE, no. 15, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, p. xlvii n. 1, probably spurious, although based on an authentic alliterative charter; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 373 n., 378, either spurious or modelled on a much older charter; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, pp. 124-5, 266, authentic, may have been drawn up by diocesan bishop; Hart 1992, p. 435, authentic charter, drawn up locally, using formulas from a lost 'alliterative' charter