Source: CharterS795
Description
King Edgar to Ælfhere, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Nymed (Woolfin in Down St Mary, Devon).
Charter information
| Sawyer |
795 |
| Birch |
1303 |
| Kemble |
--- |
| British Academy |
--- |
| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Exeter ex Crediton |
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Source Information
| Language |
Latin with Old English |
| Date from Source |
974 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
974 |
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Notes
*Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, authentic; Pope 1933, on bounds; Rose-Troup 1933, p. 58, on bounds; Rose-Troup 1942, pp. 251-3, on bounds; Wormald 1945, p. 122 n., on script; Finberg, ECDC, p. 13 (no. 41); Bishop 1955, pp. 195-6, apparently authentic; Finberg 1960, pp. 26-9, bounds cover part of Zeal Monachorum and most of Down St Mary; Chaplais 1966, pp. 14-15 (no. 15), probably an original (= 1981, XV pp. 14-15); Finberg 1969, pp. 55, 56-7, 61, genuine; HRH, p. 231, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 34 n. 58, on endorsement; Chaplais 1985, p. 42 n. 5, on an emended subscription; Hooke 1994, pp. 172-5, on bounds; cf. S 684.
Notes: On the dorse is a later note stating that this is the land at Copulastan (Copplestone) which the priest Beorhtric gave to Crediton minster for the supplies of the monks
Translation(s)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
 |
King, R.J. |
Coplestone Cross; and a Charter of Eadgar, A.D. 974 |
Transactions of the Devonshire Assocation |
1876 |
353-5 |
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