Source: CharterS689

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Description

King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 50 hides (cassati) at Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants., and 13 predia in Winchester, with the bounds of Crux Easton, Hants.

Charter information
Sawyer 689
Birch 1144
Kemble 1235
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 89
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 961
Scholarly Source Dating 961

Notes

*Crawford 1922, pp. 67-8, on bounds, with map p. 80, pp. 72-3, on identification; Grundy, Hants. 1924, pp. 58-60, on bounds; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 153-6, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 98, authentic; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 457; Sawyer, Burton, p. 34, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 582, regared with some suspicion; Keynes 1980, p. 11 nn. 16, 17, witness-list perhaps modelled on that of S 690, p. 74 n. 149, suspicious; Edwards 1988, p. 184, authenticity very doubtful; Lapidge 1988, p. 93 n. 34, not above suspicion; Dumville 1992, p. 110 n. 257; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 89, authenticity uncertain; cf. S 937

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Transaction S689    King Edgar 11 to Abingdon 1 Abbey; grant of 50 hides (cassati) at Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants., and 13 predia in Winchester, with the bounds of Crux Easton, Hants.
2 Event S689    King Edgar 11 to Abingdon 1 Abbey; grant of 50 hides (cassati) at Hurstbourne Tarrant, Hants., and 13 predia in Winchester, with the bounds of Crux Easton, Hants.