Source: CharterS1256

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Cyneheard, bishop (of Winchester), and Cynewulf, king, to Ecgwald, abbot, and his familia at Tisbury Minster, Wilts.; confirmation of 30 hides by Fontmell Brook, Dorset, acquired by a predecessor of Ecgwald from another monastery.

Charter information
Sawyer 1256
Birch 186
Kemble 104
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Shaftesbury
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 759
Scholarly Source Dating 759

Notes

*Stenton 1918, p. 443 n. 48, witness-list corrected (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 6); Goodchild 1929, pp. 322-3; Darlington 1955, p. 25; John 1960, p. 9; Finberg, ECW, no. 557, authentic; Chaplais 1965, pp. 55-6, on diplomatic implications (= 1973, pp. 36-7); Vollrath 1985, pp. 139-40; Wormald 1988, no. 2; Edwards 1988, pp. 229-34, authentic; Campbell 1989, pp. 23, 30, cited with reference to land-sale; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 4-10, authentic.

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Whitelock, Dorothy English Historical Documents, c.400-1042 London and New York 1999 [reissue of 1979 edition] 481-2 [no. 55]

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