Source: CharterS470

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Description

King Edmund to Winchester, New Minster; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Pewsey, Wilts.

Charter information
Sawyer 470
Birch 748
Kemble 380
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Winchester, New Minster
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 940
Scholarly Source Dating 940

Notes

*Stenton 1913, p. 40, original; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 247-51, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 94, contemporary; Finberg, ECW, no. 248, original; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, original, probably written by Winchester scribe (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Forsberg 1970, p. 35, on part of bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 24 n. 33, p. 44 n. 81, p. 45 n. 82, original, witness-list based on same memornadum as that in S 465; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, 159, on script; Keynes 1996, pp. 22-3, original, discusses circumstances of donation

Notes: Apparently written in three stages: text and bounds; dating clause and column of the word Ego; names of the witnesses (in darker ink)