Description
Edgar, king of the Mercians, to Æthelric, his minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Wootton, Oxon.
Notes
*Ekwall 1925, pp. 156-7, on bounds; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 91-2; on bounds; PN Oxon., i. 7, ii. 293, 490, on bounds; Whitelock 1959, p. 75, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 187), authentic; HRH, p. 229, ? genuine, but subscriptions doubtful; O'Donovan 1973, p. 113, on a witness; Whitelock 1973, p. 233, on a witness; Gelling, ECTV, no. 276, authentic, bounds describe only small portion of modern parish; Keynes 1980, p. 69 n. 135, on royal style; Hart 1992, pp. 450-1; Blair 1994, p. 78, on hidage, pp. 108, 196 n. 93, on Wootton; John of Worcester, p. 407 n., on witnesses