Source: CharterS420

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Description

King Æthelstan to the familia of Chertsey Minster; confirmation of lands in Surrey and Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 420
Birch 697
Kemble 363
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Chertsey
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 16 December 933
Scholarly Source Dating 933

Notes

*Stevenson 1904, p. 152 n. 3, spurious; PN Hunts., pp. 222-3, Suthmeresfelda is Summerfield (lost; now Canon's Farm) in Banstead, Surrey; Dodgson and Khaliq 1969-70, p. 39, queries identification of Albury, Surrey; O'Donovan 1973, p. 105, forgery; Rumble 1976, pp. 167-9, on place-name forms; Gelling, ECTV, no. 325 (pp. 34, 156-7), spurious; Fleming 1985, pp. 256, 258-60; Keynes 1985, p. 158 n. 75, not acceptable in received form but royal style probably reflects a general usage of Æthelstan's reign; Dumville 1992, p. 34 n. 17, p. 46 n. 92, p. 52, spurious, forger may have taken some formulas from a genuine diploma of Æthelstan; cf. S 427