Source: CharterS414

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Æthelstan, king of all of Britain, to the familia of Bath, St Peter's; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Priston, Somerset, and 5 at Cold Ashton, Gloucs., forfeited by Alfred for conspiracy.

Charter information
Sawyer 414
Birch 670
Kemble 354
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Bath
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 931
Scholarly Source Dating 931

Notes

*Napier and Stevenson, pp. 88, 137 n. 1, cannot be genuine in pesent form, witnesses are of A.D. 941, probably founded upon S 476; Plummer 1899, p. 134, spurious; Robinson 1923, p. 62, spurious; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 90-8, on bounds of Cold Ashton; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 182-5, on bounds of Priston; Turner 1951, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 435, authentic basis, dates 934 x 939; PN Gloucs., iii. 63-4, 78; Finberg, ECWM, no. 93, authentic basis, cf. S 664 for a reference to Æthelstan's grant of Cold Ashton; O'Donovan 1972, p. 37, suspect, witnesses belong to 937 x 939; Hart, ECNE, pp. 381, 383, dates 937 x 939; Whitelock, EHD, p. 371, forgery; Costen 1983, pp. 27-8, on bounds; Keynes 1985, p. 161, undoubtedly spurious; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 16, dubious; Wormald 1988, no. 30; Abrams 1996, p. 213, questionable; cf. S 415