Source: CharterS237

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Centwine, king of the Saxons, to Hæmgils, abbot of Glastonbury; grant of 23 hides (mansiones) near Quantock Wood and 3 hides (cassati) at Crycbeorh (probably Creechbarrow Hill, near Taunton), Somerset.

Charter information
Sawyer 237
Birch 62
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Glastonbury
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 672
Scholarly Source Dating 672

Notes

*Davidson 1884, p. 7, no internal evidence of falsity; Stevenson 1904, p. lxxvii n. 1, spurious; Robinson 1921, p. 29 n. 5; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 51-4, bounds cover whole of West Monkton and western part of Creech St Michael; Grundy 1938, further notes on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 361, authentic basis; Finberg 1964, p. 99, cited; Finberg 1972, pp. 389-90, Crycbeorh is Creechbarrow; Scott 1981, pp. 90, 198 n. 82; Fleming 1985, pp. 252, 256, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 15-17, revised and interpolated version of apparently genuine early instrument, date 672 in B 62 is an error; Abrams 1991, p. 121, cited; Costen 1992, p. 41, on estate; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 56, cited; Abrams 1996, pp. 13-14, 31, 39, on MS sources, pp. 80-3, charter may not originally have referred to West Monkton, bounds presumably a later addition, pp. 99-100, on Crycbeorh, p. 231, on possible connection with S 248.

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
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The Early Charters of Wessex Finberg, Herbert Patrick Reginald The Early Charters of Wessex Leicester 1964 252-4