Source: CharterS294b
Description
Ęthelwulf, king of the West Saxons, to the Church; grant of privileges, with particular mention of lands belonging to the church of Malmesbury at Ellendune (Wroughton), Wilts. (30 hides); Elmhamstede (15 hides); and at Wootton (10 hides), Charlton near Malmesbury (20 hides), Minety (5 hides), and Rodbourne, Wilts. (10 hides). ('First Decimation'.).
Charter information
Sawyer |
294b |
Birch |
447 |
Kemble |
1048 |
British Academy |
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Source Used |
Birch |
Archive(s) |
Malmesbury |
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Source Information
Language |
Latin |
Date from Source |
5th November 844 |
Scholarly Source Dating |
844 |
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Notes
*HS, pp. 630, 638, 640, questionable; Stevenson 1904, p. 199, dubious; Robertson, Charters, p. 275, highly suspicious; Darlington 1955, p. 90, 'presumably a forgery'; Watkin 1956, p. 212 and n. 57; Finberg, ECW, no. 200, authentic basis, cf. chapter vi; Finberg, ECWM, no. 68, spurious; Biddle et al. 1956, p. 466 n. 3; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 103, spurious; Keynes and Lapidge, p. 233, spurious; Edwards 1988, p. 107, on Rodbourne; O' Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 15-18, spurious; Keynes 1994/2, pp. 1115-16, probably spurious, date and witness-list from a genuine charter of 844; cf. S 294, 294a.
Note. Previously listed as S 322.