Source: CharterS348

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Description

Alfred, king of the Anglo-Saxons, to Æthelhelm, comes; grant of 10 hides (manentes) at North Newnton, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 348
Birch 567
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Wilton
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 892
Scholarly Source Dating 892

Notes

*Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 80; Jones 1881, on bounds; Stevenson 1904, pp. lxvii, 151, spurious; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 187-91, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 91, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 217, authentic, bounds nearly the same as in S 424; John 1966, p. 45, on royal style; O'Donovan 1973, p. 104, very suspect; Whitelock 1979, pp. 78-83, probably authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 158 n. 15, on witness-list; Lapidge 1981, p. 78 n., possibly genuine base (= 1993, p. 66n.); Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 179, 326-30, accepted as genuine (with map of bounds, p. 180); Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1136-7, contemporary formulation, cf. S 347; Smyth 1995, pp. 252-3, 375, 421, dubious

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
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Saints, Scholars and Heroes: Studies in Medieval Culture in Honour of Charles W. Jones King, M.H., & Stevens, W.M. Some Charters in the Name of King Alfred Collegville, Minnesota 1979 78-9

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Keynes, Simon D., & Lapidge, Michael Alfred the Great: Asser's 'Life of King Alfred' and Other Contemporary Sources Harmondsworth 1983 179, 181