Source: CharterS563

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King Eadred to Ælfgyth, a nun at Wilton; grant of 20 hides (cassati) at (East) Pennard, Somerset, in return for 120 gold solidi.

Charter information
Sawyer 563
Birch 903
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 955
Scholarly Source Dating 955

Notes

*Grundy, Somerset, pp. 65-71, 233-4, bounds refer to East Pennard; Barker 1949, p. 73, contemporary; Finberg, ECW, no. 469, original; Chaplais 1966/1, pp. 163-4, original, script similar to that in Bodleian, Hatton 30 (= 1973, p. 47); Barker 1967, p. 91, original; Hart 1972, p. 128 n. 23, diplomatic characteristic of Winchester; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, pp. 46-8, on charter-type; Costen 1992, pp. 39-40, on estate; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. pp. 174, 186-7, original; Abrams 1996, pp. 10, 11, on MS 1, p. 19 n. 56, on endorsement, pp. 66, 123, on details of bounds, pp. 195-8, on estate

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