Source: CharterS975
Description
King Cnut to Sherborne Abbey; grant of 16 hides (mansae) at Corscombe, Dorset.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
975 |
| Birch |
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| Kemble |
1322 |
| British Academy |
O'Donovan, Sherborne No. 16 |
| Source Used |
Brit_Ac |
| Archive(s) |
Sherborne |
|
Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
1035 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
1035 |
|
Notes
Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28, cited; Grundy, Dorset 1935, pp. 136-9, bounds describe Corscombe parish, excluding Benville but including Tollor Whelme; Finberg, ECW, no. 623, authentic; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, possibly regional formulation; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxviii-xxxi, xxxv-vi, 57-8, authentic, cf. S 979 from Athelney; Lawson 1993, pp. 239, 240, local production; Barnard 1994, esp. pp. 5-8, on bounds; Keynes 1994/1, pp. 51-2 and n. 50, possible regional production