Source: CharterS933
Description
King Æthelred to Sherborne Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset. The estate had belonged to Sherborne in Edgar's reign, been leased out for two lives and then sold to Ealdorman [dux] Eadric, and later bought back by Wulfgar, famulus of Sherborne.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
933 |
| Birch |
--- |
| Kemble |
1309 |
| British Academy |
O'Donovan, Sherborne No. 15 |
| Source Used |
Brit_Ac |
| Archive(s) |
Sherborne |
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Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
1014 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
1014 |
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Notes
*Grundy, Dorset 1935, pp. 130-5, bounds describe modern parish of Corscombe, excluding Benville and Tollor Whelme; Finberg, ECW, no. 617, authentic; Barlow 1970, p. 30 n. 1, doubtful and irregular; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 89 n. 23, pp. 97, 115, 267, authenticity uncertain, cf. links with S 969; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxviii-ix, xxxv-vi, 53-4, may be authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 239, on formulation; Barnard 1994, esp. pp. 1-5, on bounds