Source: CharterS496

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Description

King Edmund to Ælfric, bishop (of Ramsbury); grant of 100 hides (mansae) at Blewbury, Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 496
Birch 801
Kemble 1151
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 36
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 944
Scholarly Source Dating 942

Notes

*Plummer 1899, p. 142, indiction shows that date should be corrected to 942; Stenton 1913, pp. 46-7, probably genuine; Grundy, Berks. 1923, pp. 199-208, on bounds; PN Warwicks., p. 229 n.; PN Berks., i. 5, 6, 10, 151-3, ii. 503, iii. 751, 758-61, bounds describe Blewbury, Aston Upthorpe, Aston Tirrold, North and South Moreton; Gelling, ECTV, no. 48, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, cited; Hooke 1989, p. 18, map; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 36, probably authentic, not clear whether date should be 942 or 944; cf. S 495