Description
King Æthelred to Shaftesbury Abbey; grant of the cenobium of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., with land at Bradford.
Notes
*Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 101-6, on bounds; Robinson 1925, pp. 107-8, on bounds; Pafford 1952, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 31 and n., authenticity defended, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 330, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 374 n. 1, no suspicious features; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions corrupt but not unrecognizable, probably basically authentic; Campbell 1978, p. 266 n. 22, original may have survived into Wanley's time; Gem 1978, pp. 109-10; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 104-7, 133-4, 257, authentic; Meyer 1981, p. 350 n. 4, cited; Haslam 1984, pp. 90-4, with map, on Bradford; Harvey 1984, on bounds; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 119-22, authentic