Source: CharterS274

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Description

Ecgberht, king, to the bishopric of Winchester; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Calbourne, Isle of Wight.

Charter information
Sawyer 274
Birch 392
Kemble 1037
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, Old Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 826
Scholarly Source Dating 826

Notes

*Grundy, Hants. 1921, pp. 137-8, on bounds; Kökeritz 1940, p. 77, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 12, authentic, p. 219, unobjectionable; Hart 1970/1, p. 30 (no. 107), authentic; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 15, very dubious; Edwards 1988, pp. 146-8, 155-6, suspicious, perhaps 10th-century fabrication, dating clause and witness-list basically authentic; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1111-12, spurious in received form but forger has used charters of mid 820s.