Source: CharterS760

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King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Oare, Berks.

Charter information
Sawyer 760
Birch 1225
Kemble 1263
British Academy Kelly, Abingdon No. 113
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Abingdon
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 968
Scholarly Source Dating 968

Notes

*Grundy, Berks. 1923, pp. 243-4, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, p. 426, suspicious; PN Berks., i. 242, iii. 649-50, 656, bounds describe an area of the modern parish of Chieveley, which includes Oare and Bradley; Forsberg 1979, pp. 147-8, on bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 109, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 11 nn. 16, 17, some of the formulae may be derived from S 896; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 113, evidently drawn up at Abingdon, authenticity uncertain; cf. S 757-9

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