Source: CharterS132

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Offa, king of the English, to Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury; grant of 60 hides (tributaria) at Hayes and Yeading and 30 at Twickenham, Middx.

Charter information
Sawyer 132
Birch 265
Kemble 159
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 790
Scholarly Source Dating 795

Notes

*HS, pp. 485-6, spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 449, MS 1 contemporary, but abnormal in structure and phraseology, correct date may be 795 (= Stenton 1970), p. 63); PN Middx, pp. 2, 29, 39, 40; Ekwall 1962, p. 27, on place-name; Bruckner 1965, p. 12 n. 10, MS 1 not contemporary; Stenton 1971, p. 225, treats as authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 205, spurious; Scharer 1982, p. 267, spurious; Wormald 1983, p. 110, forgery; Brooks 1984, pp. 120-1, 320-1, spurious, forger perhaps used the record of a 795 synod, MS 1 written in imitative script; Cubitt 1995, p. 81, on formulation, p. 275, cannot be authentic but may be based on a genuine synodal record; Bailey 1996, p. 69, on Hayes.