Source: CharterS399

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Description

Æthelstan, rex Anglorum, to Ælfflæd; grant of 20 hides (mansiones) at Winterburna.

Charter information
Sawyer 399
Birch 664
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source Easter 928
Scholarly Source Dating 928

Notes

*Grundy, Dorset 1939, p. 69, not in Dorset; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. p. ccxxiv (no. 1235), identifies as Winterborne Monkton, Wilts.; Finberg, ECW, no. 229, authentic; Whitelock 1966, p. 100, note on identity of beneficiary; Keynes 1980, p. 41 n. 71, p. 43, 'Æthelstan A' charter; Scott 1981, pp. 112, 201 n. 108; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; BA Facs., p. 9, cited; Dumville 1994, pp. 158-9; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 34, 35, 39, on MS sources, pp. 249-52, on estate, identification remains uncertain; cf. S 400