Source: CharterS403

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Description

Æthelstan, rex Anglorum, to Beornheah, bishop (of Selsey); grant of 4 hides (cassatae) at Medmerry, with woodland at Earnley and meadow outside Chichester, Sussex.

Charter information
Sawyer 403
Birch 669
Kemble 350
British Academy Kelly, Selsey No. 17
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Selsey
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 3 April 930
Scholarly Source Dating 930

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, p. 65, authentic; Stevenson 1904, p. 330, n. 6, authentic; Drögereit 1935, p. 366; Barker 1948, pp. 145-8; Bullough 1972, p. 471 n. 38, on Latin vocabulary; Hart 1972, p. 127, cited; Keynes 1980, p. 43 n. 74; Sawyer 1983, p. 295, on meeting-place; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; BA Facs., p. 9; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 74-7, authentic basis but seems to have been partly rewritten to include fuller details of appurtenant woodland and meadow; cf. S 405

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Barker, Eric Ernest Sussex Anglo-Saxon Charters Sussex Archaeological Collections 1948 142-5