Source: CharterS993

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Description

King Harthacnut to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Farnborough, Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 993
Birch ---
Kemble ---
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 141
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1042
Scholarly Source Dating 1042

Notes

Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Darlington 1955, p. 67; Barlow 1970, p. 53, anachronistic features, but witness-list is sound; HRH, p. 233, dubious, but subscriptions are consistent; PN Berks., i. 232, ii. 424, 496, 497, 501, iii. 658, bounds the same as those in S 411; Gelling, ECTV, no. 130, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, p. 27 n. 40, dubious; Sawyer 1983, p. 296, on meeting-place; Lawson 1984, p. 734; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 141, authenticity uncertain, possibly a contemporary Abingdon product