Source: CharterS944

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Description

King Æthelred to ? [Anonymous]; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Weston in South Stoneham, Hants.

Charter information
Sawyer 944
Birch ---
Kemble 713
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 990

Notes

*Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 248-9, identifies Stanham as North Stoneham; Forsberg 1950, pp. 216-17, on bounds, identifies Stanham as South Stoneham; Burgess 1964; Finberg, ECW, no. 140, authentic, has same witnesses as S 942; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 148), authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, dates to 990; Keynes 1980, p. 250, spurious; Currie 1995, pp. 111-15, 123, on bounds and estate history; Russell 1996, on detail of bounds.

Notes: The rubric states that the king gave the land to the bishopric for the Old Minster.