Source: CharterS1450

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(1) A.D. 951 (? for 959). King Edgar to the church of St Peter, Westminster; restoration of 5 hides (mansiunculae) on the north side of the river Thames between the Tyburn and the Fleet, Middx, with an additional grant of 5 hides at Blecceanham (Blechenham, lost, in Hendon). (2) A.D. 972 (Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey). King Edgar to St Peter's; grant of 6 hides (cassati) at Lohtheres leage (lost, in Hendon, Middx), purchased by Archbishop Dunstan from Edgar for 70 gold solidi and previously in the possession of Wulfmær. (3) A.D. 978. Dunstan, archbishop of Canterbury, purchases for thirty pounds a further 3 hides at Lotheres leage, previously held by Beorhtferth, huntsman, and grants the estate to St Peter's, Westminster. (4) A.D. 986. King Æthelred to the church of Westminster; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Hampstead, Middx.

Charter information
Sawyer 1450
Birch 1290
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Westminster
Source Information
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 959 x 986

Notes

Hales 1890, on bounds; Napier and Stevenson, p. 85, dubious; Robinson 1911, p. 170, prints bounds in translation; Stevenson 1914, p. 702, late and clumsy fabrication; PN Middx, pp. 1, 3, 4, 6, 9, 50, 56, 57, 63, 111, 113, 165, and pp. 219-21, bounds of Blecceanham, pp. 221-2, bounds of Hampstead; Gelling 1954, on bounds, with a map; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Gelling, ECTV, nos 228-9, spurious; BA Facs., p. 10, consolidated record of the endowment of Westminster in 10th century; Dumville 1994, p. 156 n. 125, p. 161, on script of MSS 1, 2. Notes: This is a composite charter, apparently put together in the late tenth century from a series of separate records. MS 3 preserves the only full version of the text. MSS 1 and 2 appear to be portions cut from an earlier single-sheet version of the full text. It seems likely that S 670, which contains the text of section 1, has been cut from another tenth-century copy of the composite charter.