A.D. 940. King Edmund to Adulf (Eadwulf); grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Liddington, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MS: BL Harley 61, 9v-10r (s. xv)
Printed: K 386 and vol. iii. 415; B 754; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 73; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 11.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 12-16, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 252, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 81; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 45-7, authentic.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Ælfhild, his kinswoman; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Culham, Oxon. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 110v-111r (s. xii)
Printed: Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 91-2; B 759; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 31.
Comments: Stenton 1913, pp. 45-6; PN Oxon., i. 150-1; Gelling, ECTV, no. 269, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, cited; Meyer 1981, pp. 345-6, cited; Thacker 1988, p. 47; Blair 1994, p. 78, genuine; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 31, authentic; cf. S 1567.
Note: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 25v, substitutes for this charter an untrustworthy memorandum to the effect that this was Abingdon land which was being leased to Ælfhild for her lifetime only (see Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 92; K 1135).
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Ælfsige, minister; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Waltham, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 26v-27r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1134; Stevenson, Chron Abingdon, i. 96-9; B 762; PN Berks., iii. 636, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 32.
Comments: Grundy, Berks. 1927, pp. 131-4; Drögereit 1935, pp. 377-9; Forsberg 1950, p. 112, on bounds; PN Berks., i. 71, 73, 112, 113, 115, iii. 635-8, bounds probably describe parishes of Waltham St Lawrence, Shottesbrooke and White Waltham; Gelling, ECTV, no. 42, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 44-5, on witness-list; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 32, authentic.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Elswithe, his kinsman and faithful minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Batcombe, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 167r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 181v (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 106 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: K 383 and vol. vi. 229-30 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 55-6 (no. 113) ex MS 2; B 749 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 464-5 (no. 844) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 86-91, on bounds; Whitelock, Wills, p. 125, possible that the estate was given jointly to Ælfheah, the king's kinsman, and to Ælfswith his wife, and that the copyist omitted Ælfheah's name; Finberg, ECW, no. 441, authentic, beneficiary probably Ælfsige; Keynes 1980, pp. 44-5, takes beneficiary to be Ælfswith; Scott 1981, pp. 114-16, 136, 202 n. 112; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 34, on MS sources, p. 55, original beneficiary probably Ælfsige, name has been corrupted; cf. S 1485.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Æthelgeard, minister; grant of 12 hides (mansae) at Exton, Hants., with note, in English, of grant by King Eadred to Æthelgeard, thegn, of a mill and messuage (haga) at Winchester. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 106v-107v (s. xii)
Printed: K 1131; B 758; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 97.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1924, pp. 110-15, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 377-9, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 58, authentic; Hart 1970/1, pp. 15-17, on beneficiary and his estates, p. 22, on rubric, p. 36 (no. 184), authentic; Biddle and Hill 1971, p. 70 n. 5, on Winchester topography; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 275, 282; Keynes 1980, p. 24 n. 33, on rubric, p. 45, on formulation; Keynes 1996, pp. 86-7, on beneficiary.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Æthelswith, a nun; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Oswaldingtune (near Ashford, Kent). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 62 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 10)
Printed: K 385; B 753; Earle, pp. 175-7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 72.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 246-51, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, pp. 372-7, original; Ker, Catalogue, p. xxxiii, on script; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, Winchester scribe, also responsible for S 447, 512 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Sawyer, Burton, p. 8, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 16, 24 n. 33, p. 45, original, product of 'Æthelstan C'; Meyer 1981, p. 345, cited; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, 159, on script.
Note: Last six witnesses added by a different scribe.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Æthelthryth, a nun; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Poolhampton in Overton, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 41rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1136; B 763.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 177-9, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 379-82, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 59, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 28 (no. 70), authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, original or early copy extant in Winchester in 1643; Keynes 1980, p. 45 n. 82, treats as authentic, witness-list based on same memorandum as that of S 470; Meyer 1981, pp. 347-8, cited; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Dunstan, his faithful abbot; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Christian Malford, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 205v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 239rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 842 ex MS 2; K 384 and vol. vi. 230 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 51 (no. 101) ex MS 2; B 752 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 71; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 666 (no. 1229) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 255-9, on bounds; Robinson 1923, p. 60 n. 2, forgery (citing wrong B no.); Darlington 1955, p. 96, defended; Finberg, ECW, no. 251, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 446 n. 2, contemporary formulation; Hart 1972, p. 128 n. 22, p. 129, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 81, on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 201 n. 112; Reed 1984, pp. 287-91, 294-6, on bounds; Brooks 1992, p. 4, suspicious, Dunstan's name may have been substituted for that of a lay beneficiary; Hart 1992, p. 442, 'a regular chancery charetr'; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 35, 39, on MS sources, pp. 88-9, on estate.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Eadric, minister; lease, for four lives, of 4 hides (mansae) at Wotton-under-Edge, Gloucs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 110v-111r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1137; B 764; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 100.
Comments: Ekwall 1925, pp. 152-3, on bounds; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 279-90, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, p. 422, spurious; Lindley 1952, on bounds; Lindley 1958, on bounds; PN Gloucs., cf. pt iv, p. 220; Finberg, ECWM, no. 95, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on rubric, p. 36 (no. 190), authentic; PN Berks., i. 31, on element of bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 24 n. 33, p. 33 n. 54; cf. S 430 for a similar lease to a thegn.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Garulf, minister; grant of 9 hides (mansae) at Swallowcliffe, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MS: BL Harley 436, 71r-72v (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 38-9; K 387 and vol. iii. 415-16; B 756.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 81; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 259-61; Drögereit 1935, pp. 372-7, authentic; Darlington 1955, p. 91; Finberg, ECW, no. 253, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on rubric; Keynes 1980, p. 24 n. 33, on rubric, p. 44 n. 81, on formulation.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to Ordwold, minister; renewal of lost landbook for 10 hides (mansae) at Wylye, Wilts., held by Ordwold's father, Ordlaf. Latin with English bounds and a note, in English, of appurtenances, including a messuage (haga) in Wilton.
Archive: Wilton
MSS: 1. BL Harley 436, 4v-7v (s. xiv)
2. BL Harley 436, 7v-11r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 3-5; K 379 and vol. iii. 414-15; B 757; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 70.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 81; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 261-5, 266-8, bounds describe the part of Wylye south of river Wylye, with an appendage relating to part of Baverstock; Darlington 1955, pp. 16, 93; Finberg, ECW, no. 254, authentic, with a note on appurtenances; Finberg 1972, p. 491 n. 4; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, cited, p. 44 n. 81, on formulation; Meyer 1981, p. 353; cited; Haslam 1984, p. 127, on Wilton messuage; Keynes 1992, pp. 56-8, on Ordlaf; cf. S 368, a renewal of a lost landbook for Ordlaf.
A.D. 940. King Edmund to New Minster, Winchester; grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Pewsey, Wilts. Latin with bounds in Old English, Middle English and Latin.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MSS: 1. Winchester, Winchester College, WCM 12091 (s. x med.; OS Facs., ii, Winchester Coll. 3)
2. BL Cotton Domit. xiv, 155r-156r (s. xiii; no bounds)
3. BL Harley 1761, 124v-125r (s. xiv)
4. Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 20v-21r (s. xv)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 271-2; K 380 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 438-9 (no. 6); Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 138-44 ex MS 4; B 748; Birch, Liber Vitae, pp. 226-30 ex MS 1.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 40, original; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 247-51, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 94, contemporary; Finberg, ECW, no. 248, original; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, original, probably written by Winchester scribe (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Forsberg 1970, p. 35, on part of bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 24 n. 33, p. 44 n. 81, p. 45 n. 82, original, witness-list based on same memornadum as that in S 465; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, 159, on script; Keynes 1996, pp. 22-3, original, discusses circumstances of donation.
Note: Apparently written in three stages: text and bounds; dating clause and column of the word Ego; names of the witnesses (in darker ink).
A.D. 940 (? for 943). King Edmund to Wulfric, minister; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Garford, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 25v-26v (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 199v (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1133; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 93-6; B 761; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 99; PN Berks., iii. 711, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 33.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 42, cited; Grundy, Berks. 1925, pp. 112-13, on bounds; O'Donovan 1972, pp. 32-3, probably misdated; PN Berks., i. 8, 14, ii. 410, 414, iii. 701-2, 711, bounds describe modern parish; Gelling, ECTV, no. 41, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 33, probably authentic, witness-list is incompatible with 940 but there are close diplomatic links with three diplomas of 943 (S 486, 487, 492), and it seems possible that a copyist misread the last three minims of .dccccxliii. as in[dictione]; this would explain why no numeral is given for the indiction. The beneficiary is Wulfric Cufing; cf. S 687.
A.D. 940 (Colchester, Essex). King Edmund to Wulfric, his minister; grant of 25 hides (manentes) at Grittleton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat 39, 202v-203r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 234v-235r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 43 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 32)
Printed: K 381 and vol. vi. 228-9 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 50-1 (no. 99) ex MS 2, p. 59 (no. 129); B 750 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 648 (no. 1201) ex MS 1.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 150 n. 2, probably spurious; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 251-3, on bounds, survey is of post-Conquest date; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 249, authentic; Hart 1972, p. 129, on charter-type; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 32, 39, on MS sources, pp. 132-4, on estate.
A.D. 940 (Chippenham, Wilts.). King Edmund to Wulfric; grant of 30 hides (mansiunculae) at Langley, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 204v-205r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 238r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 85 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 33)
Printed: K 382 and vol. vi. 229 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 60 (no. 131); B 751 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 660-1 (no. 1219) ex MS 1.
Comments: Jackson 1858, pp. 37, 47-8; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 253-5, bounds may describe Langley Burrell, but are difficult to locate; Forsberg 1950, p. 204, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 250, authentic; Hart 1972, pp. 128-31, on charter-type; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Sawyer 1983, p. 292, on meeting-place; Wilson and Tucker 1983, on bounds; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on charter-type; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 33, 39, on MS sources, pp. 149-51, on estate.
A,D. 941. King Edmund to Ælfflæd, a religious woman; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Buckland (Newton) and Plush, Dorset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 196r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 223v (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 50 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 32)
Printed: K 389 and vol. vi. 230-1 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 60-1 (no. 133) ex MS 2; B 768 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 74; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 608-10 (no. 1133) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset, 1933, pp. 254-61, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 379-82; Finberg, ECW, no. 584, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 495, on detail of bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 66 n. 124, on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; Rumble 1987, p. 225, on place-name; PN Dorset, iii. 239, 242, 245, 254-9; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 32, on MS sources, pp. 64-5, on estate.
A.D. 941. King Edmund to Ælfheah, minister; grant of 16 hides (mansae) at Pitminster, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 30r-31r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1140; B 770.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 30-4, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 378-9, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 444, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 27 (no. 55), authentic; O'Donovan 1972, pp. 32-3, citing Whitelock, may not be reliable; Keynes 1980, p. 66 n. 124, on formulation, cf. S 440, the grant of the same estate to the same beneficiary.
A.D. 941. King Edmund to Æthelnoth, minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Corston, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 65-7 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 388 and vol. iii. 416; B 767; Hunt, Bath Charts., pp. 11-13.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 201-4, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 372-7, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 443, authentic; Costen 1983, pp. 28-9, on bounds; Abrams 1996, p. 254 n. 72, note on estate; cf. S 593, 785.
A.D. 941. King Edmund, with Eadred his brother and Eadwig his son, to Christ Church, Canterbury; restoration of land at Twickenham, Middx; Preston near Faversham, Wingham, Swarling, Bossington, Graveney and Ulcombe, Kent; with reference to grant by King Athelstan to Christ Church, Canterbury, of land at Tarring, Sussex. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 200r (s. xii)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 21v-22r (s. xii)
3. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 322-3 (s. xiii)
4. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 15rv (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2221 ex MS 1; K 1138 ex MS 3; B 766 ex MS 3; Barker 1949, pp. 53-4, part only, with translation.
Comments: Robinson 1919, p. 43, cannot be authentic in present form; PN Middx, p. 29; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 251-2, on place-names; Barker 1949, p. 54; O'Donovan 1972, p. 32, on subscription of Oda of Sherborne; Gelling, ECTV, no. 215, spurious; Brooks 1984, pp. 220-1, 232, 326, spurious, forger used Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; cf also S 515.
A.D. 941. King Edmund to Eadric, his vassallus; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Beechingstoke, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MSS: 1. BL Harley 61, 4v-6r (s. xv)
2. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 4r-5v (s. xvii; ex 1; no bounds)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 213-14; K 390 and vol. iii. 416; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 477-8 (no. 4); B 769; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 12.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 255 n. 2, may be genuine; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 269-71, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 255, authentic; John 1966, pp. 54-5, on royal style, no suspicious features except Archbishop Oda's attestation; O'Donovan 1972, pp. 32-3, on problem of Archbishop Oda's attestation; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp, 50-3, unusual formulation, but probably authentic.
A.D. 942 (Winchcombe, Gloucs.). King Edmund to Wulfsige the Black; grant of 40 hides at Alrewas, Bromley (cf. Kings and Abbots Bromley), Barton, Tatenhill, Branston, Stretton, Rolleston, Clifton and Haunton, Staffs. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 174r = p. 347 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: B 771; Sawyer, Burton, no. 5.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 81-2 (no. 6).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 82-4; Drögereit 1952, p. 63 n. 23, doubtful; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Sawyer 1975/1, pp. 34-8, authentic, discusses historical context; Hart, ECNE, no. 82 and p. 167, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-ix, on 'alliterative' charters, pp. 11-12, treats as probably authentic, but cf. S 484 and Burt 1 (S 1606); Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Keyens 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters.
A.D. 942. King Edmund to Athelstan, comes; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Ærmundeslea and a vill at Appleton, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 27r-28r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1141; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 100-2; B 777; PN Berks., iii. 723, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 34.
Comments: Field 1907, pp. 42-4, on bounds; Stenton 1913, p. 18, cited; Grundy, Berks. 1922, pp. 147-9, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, p. 370; PN Bucks., p. 81, on bounds; PN Berks., i. 15, ii. 401-2, 426, 443, iii. 717, 723-4, bounds may describe modern parish of Appleton with Eaton; Gelling, ECTV, no. 43, authentic; Fleming 1985, p. 252, cited; Dumville 1992, p. 40 n. 55; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 34, fundamentally authentic but reference to Appleton is probably an addition, intended to define the part of the larger district known as Ærmundesleah to which the charter referred.
A.D. 942. King Edmund to Athelstan, his faithful comes; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Mells, Somerset. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 161v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 178v-179r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 101 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: K 393 and vol. vi. 231-2 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 55 (no. 111) ex MS 2; B 776 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 453-4 (no. 823) ex MS 1.
Comments: Drögereit 1935, pp. 379-82; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 98-101, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 445, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 66 n. 124, on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 116, 202 n. 112; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 34, 36, 38, on MS sources, pp. 171-2, on estate.
A.D. 942. King Edmund to Sæthryth, a nun; grant of 11 hides (mansae) at Winkfield [and at Swinley], Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 30v-31v (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 117rv (s. xii; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 199v (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1142; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 114-16; B 778; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 102; PN Berks., iii. 646, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 35.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 42, cited; Grundy, Berks. 1928, pp. 17-20, on bounds; PN Berks., i. 7, 36-8, 42, iii. 641, 646-7, bounds probably cover modern parish of Winkfield, which includes Swinley Park; Gelling, ECTV, no. 44, authentic; Meyer 1981, p. 346, cited; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 35, authentic, references to Swinley occur only in MS 1 and were probably added to define the portion of the Winkfield area to which the charter referred.
A.D. 942. King Edmund to Theodred, bishop of London; grant of land at Southery, Norfolk. Latin.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 47v (s. xiii2)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Mm. 4. 19, 83rv (s. xii; incomplete)
Printed: K 391; B 774.
Comments: Hart, ECEE, no. 120A (p. 96), authentic; cf. S 1526.
Note. In MS 1 there is a note before the dating clause referring to a vernacular translation of the text; the position suggests that the scribe was probably misled by vernacular bounds.
A.D. 942. King Edmund to Wulfsige the Black; grant of land at Walton-on-Trent, Coton in the Elms, Cauldwell, Drakelow, Derbys.; Newbold in Barton-under-Needwood, Staffs.; and Linton, Derbys. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 174r = p. 347 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: B 772; Sawyer, Burton, no. 6.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 84-5 (no. 7).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 85-6; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Hart, ECNE, no. 83 (pp. 92, 104) and cf. p. 168, authentic; Sawyer 1975/1, pp. 34-8, either this charter or Burt 1 (S 1606) is likely to be spurious; Whitelock, EHD, on 'alliterative' charters; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 11-12, very similar indeed to Burt 1 (S 1606), one of the two likely to be spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on charter-type; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; Hart 1992, p. 316, on lack of assessment, pp. 431-45, on charter-type; cf. S 479.
A.D. 942. See also S 479. King Edmund to Wulfsige the Black; grant of 40 hides at Alrewas, Bromley (cf. Kings and Abbots Bromley), Barton, Tatenhill, Branston, Stretton, Rolleston, Clifton and Haunton, Staffs.
A.D. 942. See also Burt 1 (S 1606). King Edmund to Wulfsige the Black; grant of land at Croxall, Catton, Walton-on-Trent, Drakelow, Stapenhill, Derys.; and at Sulueston' (? Silverstone, Northants.).
A.D. 942. King Edmund to Wynflæd, a nun; restoration and confirmation of 7 hides (mansae) at Cheselbourne, Dorset, and grant of a further 8 hides there; with note, in English, of grant to Wynflæd of land in Winterbourne Tomson, Dorset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MSS: 1. BL Harley 61, 7r-8r (s. xv)
2. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 6v-7v (s. xvii; ex 1; no bounds)
Printed: K 392 and vol. iii. 417; B 775; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 75; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 13.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset, 1934, pp. 120-2, 128-9, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 204, on bounds and identification of Winterbourne; Finberg, ECW, no., 585, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 384, on witnesses; Meyer 1981, p. 354, cited; PN Dorset, ii. 57, 81-2, iii. 202-8; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 56-9, authentic basis, English note and Winterbourne bounds are probably a later addition.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Ælfsige, minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Moredon in Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 43rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 1146; B 788; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 104.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 283-8, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 262, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 28 (no. 73), authentic; cf. S 1376.
A.D. 943. See S 512. King Edmund to Ælfstan, minister; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Miclan grafe in Thanet, Kent.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Ælfswith, a religious woman; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Burghclere, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 32r-33r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1145; B 787; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 103.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1921, pp. 130-4, on bounds; Crawford 1922, pp. 77-8 and map facing p. 81, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 62, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 27 (no. 58), authentic; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Æthelgeard, minister; grant of 7 hides (mansae) at Tisted, Hants., and note, in English, of grant by King Eadred to Æthelgeard of a messuage (haga) in Winchester. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 51r-52r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1144; B 786.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 267-71, bounds describe West Tisted; Drögereit 1935, pp. 379-82, authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 61, authentic; Hart 1970/1, pp. 15-17, on beneficiary and his estates, p. 17 n. 1, on relationship with S 511, p. 29 (no. 86), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, p. 66 n. 124, on formulation; Pelteret 1995, p. 284; Keynes 1996, pp. 86-7, on beneficiary; cf. S 463, 511.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to his mother [Eadgifu]; grant of 10 sulungs at North Mynstre, Thanet, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 399-400 (s. xiii)
Printed: B 784.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 22, 258-60, on identification and bounds; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. xxviii n. 45, estate apparently near Westgate on Sea; Kelly, pers. comm., authentic.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Eadric, comes; grant of 11 hides (mansae) at Mapperton in Almer, Dorset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MS: BL Harley 61, 10rv (s. xv)
Printed: K 394 and vol. iii. 417-18; B 781; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 76; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 14.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset, 1933, pp. 244-9, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 373-7, authentic; Grundy, Dorset 1937, p. 100, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 205, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 586, authentic; PN Dorset, ii. 55-8, 67, 71, 84; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 60-2, authentic.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Eadric, minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Leckhampstead, and a mill on the river Lambourn, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 28r-29r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 201r (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1147; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 103-6; B 789; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 105; PN Berks., iii. 662, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 37.
Comments: Baring 1909; Grundy, Berks. 1926, pp. 110-12, on bounds; PN Berks., i. 12, 234, 254, iii. 657, 662-3, bounds describe modern parish; Gelling, ECTV, no. 45, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 37, authentic; cf. S 665,a version of this charter with Eadwig's name substituted for Edmund's.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Wulfgar, minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at South Newton, Wilts., with meadow at Weolces clife, and 3 hides at Frustfield (lost), Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MS: BL Harley 436, 20v-24v (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 10-12; K 395 and vol. iii. 418-19; B 782; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 77.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 81; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 271-4, 276-8, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 92; Finberg, ECW, no. 260, authentic, cf. similar bounds in S 766; Taylor 1964, on bounds; Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on rubric; Keynes 1980, p. 24 n. 33, on rubric; Meyer 1981, p. 351 n. 6, p. 353, cited.
A.D. 940 (? for 943). See S 471. King Edmund to Wulfric, minister; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Garford, Berks.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfgyth, a nun; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Rollington (lost) in Bulbridge, near Wilton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MS: BL Harley 436, 50r-53r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 28-9; K 401 and vol. iii. 420-1; B 795; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 80.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 81; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 288-9, bounds probably refer to part of the lands of Wilton lying south of the Nadder, perhaps excluding Bulbridge; PN Wilts., p. xli, Rollington was the name of the hill running south of The Temple in Wilton Park up to Warren Down; Darlington 1955, p. 92; Finberg, ECW, no. 263, authentic; Dumville 1992, pp. 177-8, on beneficiary; cf. S 563.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfheah, minister; grant of 6 hides (mansae) at Lyford, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 29rv (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 200r (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1150; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 106-9; B 798; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 106; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 38.
Comments: PN Berks., i. 8, 14, ii. 413, iii. 702-3, on perfunctory bounds and place-name; Gelling, ECTV, no. 47, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 38, authentic.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfric, bishop (of Ramsbury); grant of 30 hides (mansae) at Badby, Dodford and Everdon, Northants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Evesham
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 63 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 11)
2. BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 18v-19r (s. xii; incomplete)
Printed: K 399 ex MS 1; K 402 and vol. iii. 421-3 ex MS 2; B 792; Earle, pp. 178-80, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 79; Keays-Young 1930, pp. 275-83, bounds only, with translation.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Stevenson 1902, p. 634, contemporary; Keays-Young 1930, pp. 271-83, on bounds; PN Northants., p. 10 n.; Hart 1970, pp. 35-7, on topography and hidage; Hart, ECNE, no. 2, MS 1 perhaps a contemporary copy; Brown et al. 1977, pp. 155-62, on bounds; Brown and Key 1977-8, pp. 1-4, on bounds; Keynes 1980, pp. 24-5, MS 1 apparent original; Dumville 1987, pp. 173-4, on script; Brown et al. 1990-1, on bounds; cf. S 496.
A.D. 944 (? for 942). King Edmund to Ælfric, bishop (of Ramsbury); grant of 100 hides (mansae) at Blewbury, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 29v-30v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1151; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 109-13; B 801; Earle, pp. 379-80, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 107; PN Berks, iii. 758, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 36.
Comments: Plummer 1899, p. 142, indiction shows that date should be corrected to 942; Stenton 1913, pp. 46-7, probably genuine; Grundy, Berks. 1923, pp. 199-208, on bounds; PN Warwicks., p. 229 n.; PN Berks., i. 5, 6, 10, 151-3, ii. 503, iii. 751, 758-61, bounds describe Blewbury, Aston Upthorpe, Aston Tirrold, North and South Moreton; Gelling, ECTV, no. 48, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, cited; Hooke 1989, p. 18, map; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 36, probably authentic, not clear whether date should be 942 or 944; cf. S 495.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ælfstan, minister; grant of 12 hides (mansae) or sulungs at Ealdingtune (? Monkton) in Thanet, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Stowe Ch. 25 (s. x med.; OS Facs., iii. 26)
2. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 396-7 (s. xiii)
Printed: B 791.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 260-3, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9, original; Ward 1943, p. 25, on bounds; Barker 1949, p. 57, contemporary; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, original, written by Winchester scribe also responsible for S 510, 528, 535, 552 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Stenton 1970, pp. 94-5, on witnesses; Finberg 1972, p. 415, on unit of assessment; Chaplais 1978, p. 16 n. 24, MS 1 has step from wrapping-tie (= 1981, XIV, p. 17); Keynes 1980, p. 16, original, product of 'Edmund C'; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Athelstan, his faithful comes; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Brampford Speke, Devon, in return for 80 mancuses of gold. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 181r (s. xiv; Rose-Troup 1938, p. 27)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 201rv (s. xiv)
Printed: B 799; Rose-Troup 1938, pp. 254-5 ex MS 1, pp. 271-2 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 527-8 (no. 980) ex MS 1; Hooke 1994, pp. 147-8, bounds only.
Translated: Rose-Troup 1938, p. 261, bounds only.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 703, spurious; Rose-Troup 1938, pp. 256-7, a confection based on a genuine set of bounds, pp. 262-70, a topographical discussion, p. 271, argues that MS 2 is based on MS 1; Forsberg 1950, pp. 205-6; Finberg, ECDC, p. 11 (no. 29); Olson 1989, pp. 54-5, on estate; Hooke 1994, pp. 147-51, bounds seem to describe most of present parish of Upton Pyne; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 37, 38, on MS sources, pp. 72-3, on estate, p. 73 n. 142, criticises Rose-Troup's reconstruction of estate history.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to the church of St Mary, Glastonbury, and to Abbot Dunstan; grant and confirmation of privileges. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 59v (s. xiv)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 5. 33, 11v-12r (s. xiii)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. v, 71v-72v (s. xv)
4. BL Royal 13. D. ii, 35v-36r (s. xii)
5. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 252, 22v-23r (s. xvii; incomplete)
6. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 68r (s. xiv)
Printed: Spelman, Concilia, i. 427; Mon. Angl., i. 15, ex MS 6; Alford 1663, iii. 278; Hearne, John of Glastonbury, i. 119-21; Hearne, Adam of Domerham, i. 73-5 ex MS 2; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 217; Warner 1826, Appendix, p. lii, ex Mon. Angl.; K 400 ex Spelman, MS 3* etc.; Mon.. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 26 (no. 8) from MS 3*, 42-3 (no. 63) ex MS 6; Thorpe, pp. 187-9; Stubbs, William of Malmesbury G.R., i. 158-9 ex MS 4; B 794 ex K and MSS 2*, 3, 3*, 4 etc.; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 144-5 (no. 203) ex MS 1; Scott 1981, pp. 116-19, with translation; Carley, Glast. Chron., pp. 120-1, with translation.
Comments: Warner 1826, Introduction, pp. cv-ix; Davidson 1884, p. 15, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 456, interpolated; Scott 1981, pp. 31-2, 12th-century forgery, perhaps by William of Malmesbury, pp. 202-3 nn. 114-16; Wormald 1995, p. 128, bogus; Abrams 1996, pp. 25-6, 28, on MS sources, p. 125 n. 5, pp. 128-30, p. 299 n. 152.
Note: A postscript states that the text was written in golden letters in a gospel-book.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Ordulf, his minister; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Brimpton, Berks., in return for 90 mancuses of purest gold. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 31v-32r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1152; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 117-18; B 802; PN Berks., iii. 643, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 39.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 41, authentic; Grundy, Berks., 1925, pp. 207-10, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9; Stenton 1955, p. 73, cited; PN Berks., i. 9, 11, 239, 240, iii 640, 643-4, bounds describe modern parish; Gelling, ECTV, no. 49, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 39, authentic.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Sigeric, his minister; grant of 2 sulungs (aratra) at Sibertswold, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. BL Add. 53710, 222v-23r (s. xiv)
2. BL Cotton Claud. D. x, 62rv (s. xiv)
3. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 104r (s. xiv; no bounds)
4. PRO Ch.R. 20 Edw. II, m. 2
5. PRO Ch.R. 36 Edw. III, m. 7
6. PRO Ch.R. 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
7. PRO Pat. R. 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, no. 5
8. PRO Pat. R. 4 Edw. IV, pt 4, m. 29
9. PRO Pat. R. 14 Hen. VII, pt 1, m. 16
10. PRO E 164/27, 82rv (s. xiii; no bounds)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2125-6 ex MS 1; Alford 1663, iii. 89; K 1132 ex MS 3; K 1149 ex MS 2; B 755 ex MS 3; B 797 ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 98; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 27.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, doubtful or spurious; Turner 1915, p. xxxi; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 251, 263-6, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9, accepted, p. 424, doubtful; Barker 1949, p. 57, on formulation; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. civ-v, 105-7, authentic charter in favour of a thegn (cf. MSS 1-2, 4-9), beneficiary transformed into a fictitious abbot of St Augustine's in MSS 3, 10. Witness-list (partial) only in MS 10.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Wulfgar, minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Hinton St Mary, Dorset. Latin with English bounds
Archive: Shaftesbury
MS: BL Harley 61, 10v-11r. (s. xv)
Printed: K 397 and vol. iii. 420; B 793; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 78; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 15.
Comments: Zachrisson 1935, no. 5, identifies as Hamoon, Dorset; Grundy, Dorset 1936, pp. 119-21, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, pp. 143-4, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 591, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 384, some of the landmarks recur in S 764; PN Dorset, iii. 159-63; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 64-5, authentic; cf. S 656, the grant to the same beneficiary of land which is to be attached to Hinton St Mary.
A.D. 944 King Edmund to Wulfric, minister: grant of 20 hides at Æscesbyrig (i.e. Woolstone, Berks.). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 103v-104v (s. xii)
Printed: K 1148; B 796.
Comments: Grundy, Berks 1922-3, pp. 151-2, on bounds; Gelling 1968, on topography and bounds; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 180), authentic; PN Berks., i. 5, 14, ii. 360, 380, iii. 675, bounds substantially the same as in S 317, describe western part of parish of Woolstone; Forsberg 1979, p. 144, on bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 46, authentic; Hooke et al. 1987, on bounds; cf. S 687.
A.D. 944. King Edmund to Wulfric, minister; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Nettleton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 202v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 234rv (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 44 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 32)
Printed: K 398 and vol. vi. 232 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i 59 (no. 128) ex MS 2; B 800 ex MS 2; Watkins, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 645 (no. 1198) ex MS 1.
Comments: Fisher 1887, p. 3 and n. 1; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 295-6, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 264, authentic; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 32, on MS sources, pp. 179-80, on estate.
A.D. 945 (30 March). King Edmund to Æthelnoth, his presbyter: grant of a monastic dwelling (mansio) at Basing and 2 hides (cassati) at Lickpit, with appurtenant woodland at Oakridge and further appurtenances at Binfields, and at Middesellum (all Hants., except perhaps Middesellum), in return for 50 solidi of gold. Latin.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MS: Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 21r (s. xv)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 283; Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 145-6; B 803; Birch, Liber Vitae, pp. 230-1, ex Edwards.
Comments: Robertson, Charters, p. 310, on topography; Finberg, ECW, no. 64, authentic; Rumble 1983, pp. 265-9, on estate history; Keynes 1996, p. 23, on beneficiary; cf. S 1418.
A.D. 945. King Edmund to Alfred, bishop (of Selsey); grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Bracklesham and 2 at Thorney (cf. Thorney Farm in East Wittering) or Earnley, Sussex. Latin.
Archive: Selsey
MSS: 1. Chichester, W.S.R.O., Ep. VI/1/2 (Liber B), 19r (s. xiv)
2. Chichester, W.S.R.O., Ep. VI/1/6 (Liber Y), 74v-75r (s. xiii)
Printed: Mon. Angl. iii. 119-20 ex MS 1; K 403 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1165-66 (no. 16); B 807 ex MSS 1,2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 81; Barker 1949, pp. 54-5 (no. 30), with translation pp. 56-7; Kelly, Selsey, no. 18 ex MSS 1, 2.
Comments: Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9; Peckham, Chichester Cart., p. 13 n. 3; Barker 1949, pp. 57-8; Cox 1976, p. 30, on place-name; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 79-80, probably authentic.
A.D. 945. King Edmund to the monastery at Baederices wirde; grant of privileges in adjacent land. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bury St Edmunds
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 5. 40, flyfleaf (s. xv)
2. Cambridge, U.L., Ff. 2. 33, 20r (s. xiii2)
3. Cambridge, U.L., Gg. 4. 4., 94r (s. xv)
4. Cambridge, U.L., Mm. 4. 19, 83v-85r (s. xii)
5. Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spenser Research Library,
Dpt of Special Collections, E 107 (s. xvii)
6. BL Add. 14847, 27r (s. xiii/xiv)
7. BL Harley 258, 58v-59r (s. xvii)
8. BL Harley 638, 30v-31r (s. xiv)
9. BL Harley 743, 56v-57r (s. xiv)
10. Bodleian, Bodley 297, pp. 327-31 (s. xii)
11. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 145v-146r (s. xvii; incomplete)
12. Bodleian, Dugdale 21, 40v-41r (s. xvii)
13. Bodleian, Gough Cambridge 22, 15v-16r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 286-7; K 404 and vol. iii. 423; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn) iii. 137 (no. 4); B 808; Hervey 1907, pp. 588-93, with translation; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 82; Douglas 1932, ii. 340-1, ex MS 10; John of Worcester, pp. 638-9.
Comments: Barker 1949, p. 57, cf. S 501; Lobel 1935, p. 2 n. 7, probably spurious; Zachrisson 1935, no. 9, on identification; Harmer, Writs, p. 144 and n. 1, generally considered spurious; Ker, Catalogue, p. 359 (no. 306), art b, on MS 10; Hart, ECEE, no. 74 (pp. 54-8), may be authentic, discusses bounds; Whitelock 1969, p. 113, probably a genuine base at least, cf. agreements with S 506; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, appears to be a late forgery based on an authentic chancery text, bounds certainly pre-Conquest; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 212, dubious; Gransden 1985, p. 12, cited; Hart 1992, p. 59, authenticity uncertain, pp. 62-6, discusses bounds; Dumville 1993, pp. 35-6, 38, deserves favourable reconsideration; Wormald 1996, p. 123.
A.D. 946. King Edmund to Æthelhere, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Weston near Bath, Somerset, on condition that he and his heirs remain faithful to Edmund until the king's death and thereafter transfer their loyalty to a designated friend (amicus) of the king. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 67-70 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 408 and vol. iii. 423-4; B 814; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 13-15; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 84.
Comments: Grundy, Somerset, pp. 221-7, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 457, authentic; Abels 1988, pp. 225-6 n. 38, on unusual condition of inheritance; cf. S 478.
A.D. 946. King Edmund to Æthelnoth, his minister; grant or lease of 5 hides (mansae) at North Wootton, Somerset, burdened with annual renders to St Mary's, Glastonbury. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 160v (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 177r (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 131 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 34)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 838, ex MS 2; K 406 and vol. vi. 232 ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn) i. 48 (no. 88); B 816 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 447 (no. 814) ex MS 1.
Comments: Davidson 1884, pp. 20-3, on bounds; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 94-8, on bounds; PN Worcs., p. 106 n.; Barker 1949, p. 72; Finberg, ECW, no. 458, authentic; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 164, on connection with Dunstan (= 1973, p. 47); Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 40, probably authentic, p. 48 n. 87, on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 122; Vollrath 1985, p. 227; Costen 1992, p. 40, on estate; Keynes 1994, pp. 182-5, in some respects anticipates 'Dunstan B' formulation; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 34, 35, 38, on MS sources, pp. 97, 181-4, on estate, p. 237, authenticity uncertain, pp. 271, 307, 324; Keynes 1996, p. 20 n. 53, details bear comparison with S 1417.
A.D. 946. King Edmund to Ordhelm and Ælfwold, his men; grant of a 'yokelet' (an iuclæte) and 10 segetes at Gamelanwyrthe, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 73 (s. x med.; BM Facs., iii. 12)
Printed: K 407 and vol. iii. 423; B 813; Earle, pp. 180-2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 83.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9, original; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 267-9, on bounds; Ward 1933, pp. 133-7, topographical discussion; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, original, written by Winchester scribe also responsible for S 497, 528, 535, 552 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); Forsberg 1970, p. 35, on detail of bounds; Keynes 1980, p. 16, product of 'Edmund C'; Brooks 1988, pp. 93, 96 and fig. 8.5, topographical discussion; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script.
A.D. 960 ? for 941. (Cheddar, Somerset, 24 July) King Edmund to Æthelgeard, minister; grant of 7 hides (mansae) at Tisted, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 50v-51r (s. xii)
Printed: K 1139; B 765; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 101.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 267-71, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 60, authentic, incarnation year miscopied, indiction and regnal year point to 941; Whitelock 1966, p. 101, epacts and concurrents als incorrect, charters of Edmund do not use these dating elements; Hart 1970/1, pp. 15-17, on beneficiary and his estate, p. 17 n. 1, corrects date to 941, p. 29 (no. 85), authentic; O'Donovan 1972, p. 33, indiction, regnal year and concurrent belong to 941, epact to 939; Dumville 1978, p. 8, on terminology; Blair 1996, p. 119, on meeting-place; Keynes 1996, pp. 86-7, not acceptable, possibly forged after division of kingdom in 957-9, discusses beneficiary; cf. S 488.
A.D. 943. King Edmund to Ælfstan, minister; grant of 6 hides (mansae), equated with 6 sulungs, at Miclan grafe in Thanet, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Stowe Ch. 24 (s. x med; OS Facs. iii. 25)
Printed: B 780.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 689 n. 3, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 256-8, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, pp. 372-7, original; Ward 1943, p. 25; Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60, original, written by Winchester scribe also responsible for S 447, 464 (= 1973, pp. 41-2); PN Oxon., i. 75, on element in bounds; Keynes 1980, pp. 16, 45, original, written by 'Æthelstan C'; Dumville 1994, pp. 144-51, on script.
A.D. 944 x 946. King Edmund to Æthelflæd, his queen; grant, for life, of 100 hides at Damerham and Martin, Hants., and Pentridge, Dorset; with reversion to St Mary's, Glastonbury. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 199r (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 228v (s. xiv)
3. Liber Terrarum, no. 37 (lost, cf. Abrams 1996, p. 32)
Printed: Hoare, Wilts., South Damerham, pp. 21-2; B 817 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 626-7 (no. 1166) ex MS 1.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1924, pp. 65-70, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, pp. 206-7, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 96, imperfect but probably authentic; Finberg, ECW, no. 63, authentic; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 164, on formulation (= 1973, pp. 47-8); Chaplais 1968, p. 316 n. 9, on formulation (= 1973, p. 65 n. 9); Keynes 1980, p. 33 n. 54, on nature of transaction; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 112; PN Dorset, ii. 236, 266, 271; Keynes 1994, pp. 183-4, on formulation; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 32, 35, on MS sources, reference in Liber Terrarum may be to a different document, pp. 167-8, 197, on estates, p. 324; cf. 1494, LSP 12 (S 1795).
A.D. 942 x 946. King Edmund to Burhric, bishop (of Rochester); grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at West Malling, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 143r-144r (s. xii1; facsimile)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 5rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 352-3; Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 108-10; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 479-80; K 409; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 170-1 (no. 35); B 779; Campbell, Rochester, no. 28 ex MS 1.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 252-6;, on place-names; Campbell, Rochester, p. xxvi, authenticity uncertain, formulation is old-fashioned; Sinclair Williams 1974, on element in bounds; Witney 1976, p. 236, on swine-pastures; Faith 1997, p. 149, cited.
(A.D. 946.) Kings Edmund, Eadred and Eadwig to Christ Church (Canterbury); restoration of land at Twickenham, Middlesex; Preston, Ealdingtun (? Monkton in Thanet), Swarling, Wingham, Kent; Graveney, Bossington, Ulcombe and Tarring, Sussex. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 141rv (s. xiii)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. E, 42v (s. xiii)
3. BL Add. 4548, 44r-47r (s. xviii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 394 (s. xiii)
Printed: K 405; B 811.
Comment: Stevenson 1914, p. 702, spurious; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 266-7, on place-names; Gelling, ECTV, no. 216, spurious; Brooks 1984, pp. 220-1, 232, 326, spurious; cf. S 477.
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