Source: CharterS485

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Description

King Edmund to Wynnflęd, a nun; restoration and confirmation of 7 hides (mansae) at Cheselbourne, Dorset, and grant of a further 8 hides there; with note, in English, of grant to Wynnflęd of land in Winterbourne Tomson, Dorset.

Charter information
Sawyer 485
Birch 775
Kemble 392
British Academy Kelly, Shaftesbury No. 13
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Shaftesbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 942
Scholarly Source Dating 942

Notes

*Grundy, Dorset, 1934, pp. 120-2, 128-9, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 204, on bounds and identification of Winterbourne; Finberg, ECW, no., 585, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 384, on witnesses; Meyer 1981, p. 354, cited; PN Dorset, ii. 57, 81-2, iii. 202-8; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 56-9, authentic basis, English note and Winterbourne bounds are probably a later addition

Event/Transaction List

Factoid Type Source Reference Short Description
1 Transaction S485    King Edmund 14 to Wynnflęd 2, a nun; restoration and confirmation of 7 hides (mansae) at Cheselbourne, Dorset, and grant of a further 8 hides there; with note, in English, of grant to Wynnflęd 2 of land in Winterbourne Tomson, Dorset
2 Event S485    King Edmund 14 to Wynnflęd 2, a nun; restoration and confirmation of 7 hides (mansae) at Cheselbourne, Dorset, and grant of a further 8 hides there