A.D. 894 for ? 994. King Æthelred to Athelney Abbey; grant of tithes from the royal estate at Somerton, Somerset, said on the authority of Archbishop Dunstan to have been previously instituted by King Alfred. Latin.
Archive: Athelney
MS: Taunton, Somerset Record Office, DD/TB Box 20/4, pp. 13-14 (s. xviii1)
Printed: (unprinted)
Comment: Keynes 1992/1, p. 155, not authentic in received form but text depends on pre-Conquest material, p. 159 n. 60, indiction would be correct for 994.
A.D. 962. King Æthelred (? for Edgar) to Leofric, minister; grant of woodland (? at Claydons in Alveston, Warwicks.). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 93rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1241; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 382-3; B 1096; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 95.
Comments: B 1096, locates at Claybrooke, near the junction of Watling Street and the Fosse Way, Leics.; Phythian-Adams 1978, esp. pp. 40-1, discussion of bounds, supports identification with Claybrooke, Leics.; Keynes 1980, p. 12 n. 19, p. 72 n. 143, on formulation, p. 268 n. 72, spurious; Gelling 1982, disputes identification; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 95, dubious, Æthelred's name substituted for Edgar's, woodland may have been in the vicinity of Claydons in Alveston.
A.D. 979. King Æthelred to Ælfhere, comes; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Olney, Bucks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Peterborough
MSS: 1. London, Soc. Ant., 60, 34v-35v (s. xii)
2. Peterborough, D. & C., 1, 129rv (s. xiii; no bounds)
Printed: K 621; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 384 (no. 16); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 49; Baines 1979/1, pp. 156-8, with translation, pp. 160-1; Reed 1979, p. 176, bounds only.
Comments: Whitelock 1959, p. 79, cited; HRH, p. 231, probably genuine, subscriptions consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 27 n. 5, resembles S 793; Baines 1979/1, probably authentic, discusses bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 153, authentic; Reed 1979, pp. 176-8, bounds probably describe parish of Olney; Keynes 1980, pp. 85 n. 6, 238, authentic.
A.D. 979. King Æthelred to Æthelwold, bishop, and the church of SS Peter and Paul (Old Minster), Winchester; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Long Sutton, to be attached to the church's estate at Crondall, Hants. The land, previously subject to Crondall, had been bequeathed to King Edgar by Æthelbriht, oeconomus. The original landbook was lost. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 15350, 114r (s. xii)
2. PRO Ch.R. 5 Edw. III, no. 85
Printed: K 622; Baigent 1981, pp. 7-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 50.
Translated: Baigent 1891, pp. 8-9.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 255-7, on bounds; Stenton 1955, pp. 75-6, probably authentic; John 1960, p. 102, impossible witness-list; Finberg, ECW, no. 129, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 37 (no. 200), authentic; HRH, p. 231, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 29 n. 5, on a formula; Keynes 1980, p. 238, authentic.
A.D. 979. See CCC 33 (S 1636). King Æthelred to Christ Church, Canterbury; note of grant of land at Sandwich and Eastry, Kent.
A.D. 980. King Æthelred to Old Minster, Winchester; grant of 1.5 hides (mansae) at Calshot, Hants., for a fishery, in return for a gold bracelet. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 7r (s. xii)
Printed: K 626; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 51.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1924, pp. 123-4, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 131, authentic, corrects an error in witness-list; Hart 1970/1, p. 24 (no. 5), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 238, authentic.
A.D. 980. King Æthelred to the monks of Old Minster, Winchester; grant of the reversion of 7 hides (cassati) at Havant, Hants., which had been granted by King Athelstan to Wihtgar, his thegn, for four lives (cf. S 430). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 98r-99r (s. xii)
Printed: K 624.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, doubtful; Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 118-24, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 130, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 35 (no. 172), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 6, pp. 238-9, authentic; Forsberg 1984, p. 5, on bounds; Pile 1984, on bounds; Pile 1994.
A.D. 981. King Æthelred to St Mary's Abbey, Tavistock, Devon; grant of privileges, including free election of a new abbot. Latin.
Archive: Tavistock
MSS: 1. PRO Ch.R. 13 Edw. I, no. 8
2. PRO Ch.R. 22 Edw. III, no. 38
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 218-19; K 629 from Mon. Angl.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 495-6 (no. 3); Oliver, Monasticon, pp. 94-5 (no. 1); Thorpe, pp. 267-70; Finberg 1943, pp. 198-200; Finberg 1951, pp. 278-83.
Comments: Plummer 1899, p. 179, spurious; Finberg 1943, authentic; Finberg 1951, pp. 278-83, authentic; Finberg, ECDC, no. 43; John 1966, p. 208 n., no reason to doubt authenticity; HRH, p. 231, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 29, authentic, Winchester formulation; Keynes 1980, p. 97 n. 43, p. 101 n. 52, p. 180 n. 101, p. 239, spurious; Hooke 1994, pp. 19-20, 115-16, on estates; Kelly, Abingdon, pp. 000-000, no good reason to question authenticity.
A.D. 982. King Æthelred to Ælfgar, his minister; grant of 5 hides (cassati) in the common land at Charlton near Wantage, Berks. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 93v-94r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1278; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 384-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 32; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 118.
Comments: Finberg 1972, pp. 488, 490; HRH, p. 234, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 215, note on formulation; PN Berks., ii. 474; Gelling, ECTV, no. 117, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 183-4, on beneficiary, p. 240, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 118, authentic; cf. S 634.
A.D. 982. King Æthelred to Leofric; grant of 3 hides (mansae) and 30 iugera at Longstock, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 15350, 67v-68v (s. xii)
2. BL Add. 15350, 68v-69r (s. xii; no bounds)
Printed: K 633; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 53.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 177-9, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 133, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 31 (nos 118-19), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 240-1, authentic.
A.D. 982. King Æthelred to Abbot Æthelweard and Malmesbury Abbey; grant of 10 hides (manentes) at Rodbourne, Wilts. Latin.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Lansdowne 417, 20v-21r (s. xiii)
2. PRO E 164/24, 133v-134r (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 46r-47v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, 95v-96r (s. xii)
Printed: K 632 ex MS 1 (and see S 1587); Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 410-11 ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 318-19; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 52.
Comments: Darlington 1955, p. 89; Watkin 1956, p. 229 and n. 45, appears to have been retouched at a later date; Finberg, ECW, no. 314, authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 27 n. 5, cf. S 714, p. 29 nn. 1, 5, Winchester formulation, very doubtful text; Keynes 1980, p. 240, authentic, witness-list printed in K 632 is corrupt; Edwards 1988, p. 107, on Rodbourne.
A.D. 982. King Æthelred to New Minster, Winchester; confirmation of 13 hides (mansae), comprising 7 hides (manentia) on the Isle of Wight at Heantune, Bathingbourne, Meolocdune and Stathe, together with 5 hides (cassata) at Fratton on Portsea Island, 1 at Segenworth in Titchfield and a meadow by the river Meon, Hants. The lands had been forfeited by Lufa, sold for 100 mancuses by King Æthelred to Ealdorman Æthelmær, and bequeathed by Æthelmær to New Minster (cf. S 1498). Latin with bounds in Old English, Middle English and Latin.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MS: Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 31r-32v (s. xv1)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 400-1; Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 271-27, with translation of bounds, pp. 353-5.
Comments: Whitelock, Wills, p. xlvii, on identifications; Kökeritz 1940, pp. 26-7, 144-6, 169, on Isle of Wight bounds; Forsberg 1942, p. 153, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, pp. 209-10, on bounds of Bathingbourne; Finberg, ECW, no. 132, authentic, discusses bounds; Keynes 1980, pp. 92-3, 241, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 44; Keynes 1996, p. 30, confirmation of bequest in S 1498, made when Æthelmær died in 982.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; grant of 2 hides (manentes) at Arncott, Oxon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 90v-91r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 202rv (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1279; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 370-2; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 119.
Comments: Grundy, Oxon., pp. 4-5, on bounds; PN Oxon., i. 9, 161-2, 222, 300, ii. 483, on bounds; HRH, p. 234, subscriptions are consistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 281, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 242, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 119, probably authentic.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Ælfnoth, his minister; grant of 2.5 hides (mansae) at Westwuda (? Westwood, Wilts.), previously held by Sealemudda (cf. rubric). Latin.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 105rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 639; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 56.
Comments: , ECW, no. 317, authentic, identifies Westwuda as Westwood, Wilts.; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 182), authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 28-9 n. 4, closely linked with S 855; Sawyer, Burton, p. 72, on links with S 855; Keynes 1980, pp. 85-8, 242, authentic.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelgar, bishop (of Selsey); grant of a meadow (Hyde Moors) in the northern part of Winchester, Hants. Latin with bounds in Old English, Middle English and Latin.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Domitian xiv, 188rv (s. xiii2; no bounds)
2. BL Harley 1761, 33rv (s. xiv; no bounds)
3. Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 32v-33r (s. xv1)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 402 ex MS 3; K 635 ex MS 2; Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 228-31 ex MS 3; Birch, Liber Vitae, pp. 246-7 ex Edwards.
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 134, authentic; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 266, on topography; Keynes 1980, pp. 92-3, 242, apparently authentic; Keynes 1996, p. 30.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelmær, dux; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Clyffe Pypard, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 77v-78r (s. xii)
Printed: K 638.
Comments: Whitelock, Wills, p. xlvii, date a copyist's error, Æthelmær died in 982; PN Wilts., pp. 266-7, identifies as Bushton in Clyffe Pypard; Darlington 1955, p. 86; Ekwall, DEPN, p. 111, identifies as Clevancy, Wilts.; Finberg, ECW, no. 315, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 32 (no. 134), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 241, spurious, date and witness-list perhaps copied in error from S 848.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelmær, his minister; grant of 9 hides (cassati) at Thames Ditton, Surrey. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Thorney
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Add. 3020, 15v-16r (s. xiv)
2. BL Harley 258, 137v-138r (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
Printed: PN Surrey, p. 90 n., bounds only; Hart, ECEE, pp. 186-7.
Comments: PN Surrey, p. 90 n., on bounds; Hart, ECEE, pp. 187-9, authentic,bounds substantially identical with those for same estate in S 911; Whitelock 1969, p. 114, corrects a reading in Hart's edition; Gelling, ECTV, no. 340, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 242, authentic.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelwine, his minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Clyffe Pypard, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 77rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 636.
Comments: Whitelock, Wills, p. 126; PN Wilts., pp. 266-7, identifies as Bushton in Clyffe Pypard; Darlington 1955, p. 86; Ekwall, DEPN, p. 111, identifies as Clevancy, Wilts.; Finberg, ECW, no. 316, authentic, text and bounds identical with S 846; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 135), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 114 n. 100, p. 241, authentic; cf. S 846.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Æthelwold, bishop; grant of a fishery at Ginanhecce on the river Darent, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 112v (s. xii)
Printed: K 640; Thorpe, pp. 270-1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 57.
Comments: Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 193), authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 29 n. 5, p. 69, on formulation; Keynes 1980, pp. 85 n. 6, 242, authenticity uncertain.
A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Shaftesbury Abbey; confirmation of 20 hides (mansae) at Tisbury, Wilts., and woodland at Sfgcnyllebar (? Sedgehill bær). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MSS: 1. BL Harley 61, 2v-3v (s. xv)
2. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 2v-3v (s. xvii; ex 1; bounds omitted)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 215-16; Hoare, Modern Wilts., Hundred of Dodsworth and Vale of Noddre, pp. 236-7; K 641; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 479 (no. 6); Earle, pp. 429-30, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 58; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 28.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 90-6, bounds describe East Tisbury, West Tisbury and Wardour; Goodchild 1929, pp. 328-31; Darlington 1955, p. 94; Finberg, ECW, no. 318, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 29 n. 2, Winchester formulation; Keynes 1980, p. 73 n. 147, on sanction, pp. 90-1, 170, 243, authentic; Meyer 1981, pp. 335-6 n. 3, p. 350 n. 4; Jackson 1984, on estate and bounds; Keynes 1992, pp. 81-3, on estate history; Meyer 1993, p. 87; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 110-14, authentic.
Note: The text states that Tisbury was an early possession of Shaftesbury which was ceded to King Edmund in exhange for Butticanlea. Edmund gave it to his wife, Ælfgifu, who proposed to bequeath it to Shaftesbury (perhaps as a reversion). But King Eadwig insisted that Butticanlea should be returned before he surrendered Tisbury to the community.
A.D. 983. King Æthelred to Wulfgar, his man; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Drayton and 1.5 at Sutton, Berks. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 94rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1280; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 386-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 33; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 120.
Comments: Finberg 1972, p. 488, on reference to common land; PN Berks., ii. 406, 424, iii. 702; Gelling, ECTV, no. 118, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, pp. 86-8, 120 n. 120, p. 161 n. 29, p. 233 n. 10, p. 242, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 120, authentic; cf. S 897.
A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Ælfheah, his minister; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Osanlea. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 95v-96r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1281; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 392-4; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 121.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, p. 72, associates Henna rith in bounds with Hendred, Berks.; Forsberg 1950, p. 217, Osanlea may be Ossemsley in Milton, Hants.; Finberg, ECW, no. 135, authentic, accepts Forsberg's identification; PN Oxon., i. 56, on pers. n. in bounds; Hart,ECNE, pp. 27-8 n. 5, pp. 28-9 n. 4, may have been drawn up at Winchester; PN Berks., ii. 480, Henna rith not Hendred; Keynes 1980, pp. 91, 232 n. 4, p. 243, authentic; Munby 1982, note on NF 3, 5, perhaps identifiable with a Domesday manor Oselei, probably located between Baddesley and Througham, Hants., cannot be Ossemsley in Milton; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 121, authentic.
A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Ælfwine, his scriptor; grant of 6 hides (cassati) in the common land, comprising 3 at Brighthampton, 2 at Aston Bampton, and 1 at Lew, Oxon. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 178v-179r = pp. 355-6 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 187-8; Sawyer, Burton, no. 24.
Comments: PN Oxon., ii. 302, 327, 329; Hart, ECNE, pp. 189-92, incomplete copy of authentic charter; Gelling, ECTV, no. 282, authentic, original unlikely to have contained boundaries; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, authentic, estates seem to have been part of a royal estate at Bampton; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, p. 100 n. 51, pp. 135, 160-1, 243, authentic; Chaplais 1985, p. 44, on beneficiary; Dumville 1993, p. 93 n. 49; Lapidge 1993, p. 170 n. 39, on chrismon; Blair 1994, pp. 128, 133; cf. S 911 and OS Facs. ii, Exeter 16.
A.D. 984. King Æthelred to the church of Bath; grant of 3.5 hides (mansae) at Radstock, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Bath
MS: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 87-8 (s. xii2)
Printed: K 643; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 31-2.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 241, spurious; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 195-6, on bounds; Ekwall 1936, p. 19; Ekwall, DEPN, p. 505 (s.n. Wellow), for identification; Finberg, ECW, no. 525, authentic but misdated, belongs to 1006 x 1019; Hart, ECNE, p. 21 n. 2, authentic but misdated; Dumville 1979, p. 12, witness-list of 1005; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, p. 94 n. 37, pp. 114, 243-4, spurious, witness-list taken from a charter of c. 1007; Keynes 1994, pp. 179, 182, spurious, based ultimately on a charter of 'Dunstan B' type, witness-list from a charter dated 1009.
A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Brihtric, his minister; grant of 8 hides (mansae) on the river Kennet (at Leverton near Hungerford, Berks.), previously held by Ætheric, rusticus. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 97r-98r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 202v (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1282; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 397-400; Pierquin, Receuil, pt 5, no. 34; PN Berks., iii. 673, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 122.
Comments: Grundy, Berks. 1926, pp. 61-3, on bounds; Stenton 1970, p. 392, on reference to a ceorl holding land; Finberg 1972, p. 518; HRH, p. 234, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 27 n. 5, pp. 28-9 n. 4, on formulation, notes similarity to S 844; PN Berks., i. 11, ii. 303, 333-4, iii. 658-9, 673-4, bounds describe north-western part of modern parish of Hungerford; Gelling, ECTV, no. 119, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, p. 72; Keynes 1980, pp. 85-8, 91 n. 26, pp. 242-3, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 122, authentic; cf. S 1020.
A.D. 985. King Æthelred to Æthelric, his minister; grant of 17 hides (cassati) at Harwell, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 48v-49v (s. xii)
Printed: K 648; PN Berks., iii. 765, bounds only.
Comments: Grundy, Berks. 1925, pp. 218-20, on bounds; Hart 1970/1, p. 29 (no. 82), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; PN Berks., ii. 480, 521, iii. 752, 765-6, bounds probably describe modern parish of Harwell; Gelling, ECTV, no. 120, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, pp. 86, 88, 244, authentic.
A.D. 985. King Æthelred to Alfred, his amicus; grant of 11 hides (mansae) at Michelmersh, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 113v-114r (s. xii)
Printed: K 652; Earle, pp. 361-3.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 236-9, on bounds; PN Oxon., ii. 302; Finberg, ECW, no. 136, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 37 (no. 199), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, p. 88 n. 21, pp. 92, 245, authentic.
A.D. 985. King Æthelred to Leofwine, his minister; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Wootton, Berks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi., 98rv (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 201v (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1283; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 400-3; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 35; PN Berks., iii. 737, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 123.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 48, cited; Grundy, Berks. 1927, pp. 57-61, on bounds; HRH, p. 234, subscriptions are consistent; PN Berks. ii. 438, 444, 459, 461, 462, iii. 719-20, 737-8, bounds describe modern parish; Hart, ECNE, pp. 28-9 n. 4, on formulation; Gelling, ECTV, no. 121, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, pp. 86, 88, 93, 244, authentic; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 123, authentic.
A.D. 985. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his sacerdos: grant of 1 hide (mansa), half at Borstealle (? Dorstealle) and half at Haestan dic and Cnollam. Latin.
Archive: Christchurch (Twynham)
MS: BL Cotton Tib. D. vi, 27v-28r (s. xiv)
Printed: K 647; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 61.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Ekwall, DEPN, p. 282, suggests Cnollam may be Knole, Kent; Finberg 1969, p. 42 n. 2, beneficiary probably a royal clerk or chaplain; Hart, ECNE, p. 190, shares formulas with S 853, may cover Knole and Borstal in Kent; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 88 n. 21, pp. 90, 245, authentic.
A.D. 985. King Æthelred to Wulfrun; grant of 10 hides (cassati), comprising 9 at Wolverhampton and 1 (manens) at Trescott, Staffs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 80r-81r (s. xii; Hooke and Slater 1986, p. 18, in part)
Printed: K 650; Hooke 1983, p. 83, bounds only.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 101-3 (no. 19).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 103-4; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 139), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 89, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 88, 93, 244-5, authentic; Hooke 1983, pp. 27-30, 63-5, on bounds; PN Staffs., i. 13, 22; Hooke and Slater 1986, pp. 17-23, on bounds and topography, with map p. 19.
A.D. 986. King Æthelred to Ælfgar, his minister; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Ebbesborne, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 18r-19r (s. xii)
Printed: K 655.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 96-7, bounds describe part of Stratfod Tony; Darlington 1955, p. 84; Finberg, ECW, no. 320, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 26 (no. 32), authentic; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 39 n. 69, pp. 95, 180, 182, 246, authentic, land had been expropriated from the see of Winchester, cf. S 891; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on legal background.
A.D. 986. King Æthelred to Wenoth, his minister; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Littleton on Severn, Gloucs. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Malmesbury
MSS: 1. BL Add. 15667, 35rv (s. xiii; bounds only)
2. BL Lansdowne 417, 21rv (s. xiv/xv)
3. BL Lansdowne 417, 25r (s. xiv/xv; beginning only)
4. PRO E. 164/24, 134rv (s. xiii)
5. Bodleian, Wood empt. 5, 47v-49r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 654 ex MS 2; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 320-1.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 157-60, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, pp. 165-6, 216, on bounds; PN Gloucs., iii. 8, 113-16, 118-19; Finberg, ECWM, no. 131, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 29, elements of 'Dunstan B' formulation, anomalous witness-list; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, pp. 94-5, 245, authentic, witness-list as published in K 654 is corrupt; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 41, diplomatically acceptable, discusses links with S 895; Keynes 1994, on 'Dunstan B' formulation, esp. p. 179; Abrams 1996, p. 50 n. 46, note on bounds.
A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Æthelsige, his minister; grant of 12 hides (mansae) at Æsce. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 178v-179r = pp. 356-7 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 408; Hart, ECNE, pp. 193-4; Sawyer, Burton, no. 25.
Comments: Hart, ECNE, no. 109 and pp. 194-6, authentic, perhaps Ashford, Derbys.; Sawyer, Burton, p. 42, authentic, possibly Ash, Hants.; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 89-90, 185, 246-7, authentic.
A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Æthelsige, his minister; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Bromley, Kent. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. viii. 14 (s. x2; BM Facs., iii. 33)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 6r (s. xiv)
Printed: Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 186-7; K 657; Earle, pp. 209-11; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 62; Campbell, Rochester, no. 30.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 302, on place-names; HRH, p. 231, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell, Rochester, p. xv, MS 1 contemporary, pp. xxiv-v, land had been seized from Rochester cathedral, p. xxvi, not in any way suspicious; Hart, ECNE, p. 28 n. 3, Winchester formulation, may be a copy; Barker 1977, pp. 182-3, discusses beneficiary and estate history; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 89-90, 246, original; Wormald 1986, pp. 158, 161, on connection with Bromley dispute; Dumville 1993, p. 153 n. 72, last surviving royal diploma written in Square Minuscule; Dumville 1994, p. 156 n. 125, p. 161, on script; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on survival of S 864 after land was restored to Rochester; cf. S 893, recording Rochester's recovery of part of the estate.
A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Æthelwold; grant of 10 hides (manentia) at Manningford Abbots, Wilts. Latin with bounds in Old English, Middle English and Latin.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Domit. A. xiv, 156r-157r (s. xiii; no bounds)
2. BL Harley 1761, 125rv (s. xiv; no bounds)
3. Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 33rv (s. xv1)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 409 ex MS 3; Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 231-6, with translation of bounds at pp. 356-7, ex MS 3.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 106-9, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 323, authentic; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 92-4, 247, authentic; Keynes 1996, p. 30, on witness-list; cf. S 1505, in which the beneficiary bequeathes the estate to his wife, with reversion to New Minster.
A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 40 hides (mansae) at Kyngtune (cf. Kington St Michael and Kington Langley), Wilts., formerly purchased from King Edgar by Ælfswith, wife of Ælfheah, dux, for 40 mancuses of gold. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Marquess of Bath, Longleat, 39, 203rv (s. xiv)
2. Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 235v (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 51; K 659 ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 651 (no. 1204) ex MS 1.
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 322, authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 29, formulas suggest a Winchester origin; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 89-90, 247, authentic; Abrams 1996, p. 15 n. 29, on textual transmission, pp. 30, 39, on MS sources, pp. 149-52, on estate history.
A.D. 987, King Æthelred to Leofwine, his venator; grant of 3 hides (mansae) at Westwood, Wilts., and 3 perticae in the common land at Farleigh Hungerford, Somerset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 15350, 105v-106v (s. xii)
2. PRO Ch.R. 5 Edw. III, no. 85
Printed: K 658; Earle, pp. 363-4, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 63.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 98-101, on bounds; Robinson 1925, pp. 106-7, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 85; Finberg, ECW, no. 321, authentic, corrects error in witness-list; Barker 1967, p. 85, on witness-list; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 183), authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 488, 495, on reference to common land; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 89-90, 246, authentic.
A.D. 988. King Æthelred to Ælfgar, his minister, or, according to the rubric, bishop; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Wylye, Wilts., previously held by Æthelwold and his brother, Ælfhelm. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 86v-87r (s. xii)
Printed: K 664.
Comments: Forsberg 1950, pp. 215-16, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 86; Finberg, ECW, no. 324, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 34 (no. 152), authentic; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 89 n. 23, pp. 90, 183, 248, authentic.
A.D. 988 (16 April). King Æthelred to Æthelgar, bishop (of Selsey); grant of 7 hides (manentia) at South Heighton, Sussex, granted to Æthelgar by Ælfric, comes, in exchange for land at Lamburna. Latin with bounds in Old English, Middle English and Latin.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MS: Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 34rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Alford 1663, iii. 412 (bounds omitted); Edward, Liber de Hyda, pp. 238-42.
Comments: Forsberg 1950, pp. 208-9, on identification; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 92-4, 248, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 48; Keynes 1996, p. 31.
A.D. 988. King Æthelred to Æthelnoth, his faithful minister; grant of a messuage (curtis) in Wilton, Wilts., associated with St Benedict's church. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MS: BL Harley 436, 56r-58v (s. xiv)
Printed: Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 31-2; K 665.
Comments: Hoare, Modern Wilts., ii. 86; Stevenson, Asser, p. 220 n. 7, on term curtis; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, p. 289, on bounds; Darlington 1955, pp. 16, 28; Finberg, ECW, no. 325, authentic; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 91-2, 93 n. 34, pp. 248-9, authentic.
A.D. 988. King Æthelred to Æthelsige, bishop (of Sherborne), and Æthelmær, the king's miles; grant of a messuage (curtis) in Winchester, Hants., formerly belonging to Edgeard. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MS: Bodleian, Wood empt. 1, 253v-254r (s. xiv)
Printed: Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 704 (no. 1303).
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 137, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 91-2, 93 n. 34, 249, authentic, discusses formulation, cf. S 870; Abrams 1996, p. 15, on textual transmission, pp. 247-8, authenticity uncertain.
A.D. 988. King Æthelred to Leofstan, his minister; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Colworth in Oving, Sussex, and a messuage (haga) in Chichester. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Selsey
MSS: 1. Chichester, W.S.R.O., Ep. VI/1/2 (Liber B), 20r (s. xiv)
2. Chichester, W.S.R.O., Ep. VI/1/6 (Liber Y), 73v-74r (s. xiii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., iii. 121 ex MS 1; K 663 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1166 (no. 19); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 65; Barker 1949, pp. 103-4 (no. 49) ex MS 2, with translation, pp. 104-5; Kelly, Selsey, no. 21.
Comments: Barker 1949, pp. 105-9; HRH, p. 231, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 28 n. 1, p. 29 n. 5, pp. 107, 161, on formulation; Keynes 1980, pp. 86, 88 n. 20, p. 91 n. 29, pp. 92, 249, authentic; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 94-5, authentic.
A.D. 988 (23 March) King Æthelred to Northman, his minister; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Hampton, near Evesham, Worcs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Evesham
MS: BL Cotton Vesp. B. xxiv, 29r (s. xii)
Printed: K 662; Hooke 1990, p. 234, bounds only.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 702, spurious; Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 128-9, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 326, spurious, the two attesting bishops were both appointed in 995; Keynes 1980, pp. 247-8, spurious, witness-list provides dating limits 996 x 1002; Hooke 1990, pp. 232-5, on bounds, with map p. 233.
A.D. 990. King Æthelred to Æthelweard, his minister; grant of 15 hides (tributaria) at Wootton St Lawrence, Hants., with nine messuages (hagan) in Winchester, a meadow at Basingstoke and a mill at Hines clifæ. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 109r-110r (s. xii)
Printed: K 673.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 313-17, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 138, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 36 (no. 188), authentic; Biddle and Hill 1971, p. 75, on Winchester topography; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 235, 341; Keynes 1980, p. 85 n. 7, p. 88 n. 20, pp. 93-4, 250, authentic.
Note. BL Add. 15350, 117r (s. xiv), formerly listed as S 874 MS 2, is a Middle English boundary clause for an unlocated estate at Wudetun.
A.D. 990. King Æthelred to Sigered, his minister; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Sibertswold, Kent. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Jul. D ii, 104v (s. xiii)
2. PRO E. 164/27, 82v-83r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1285; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 30.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, p. 65, dubious; Turner 1915, pp. xxxi-ii; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 331; Keynes 1980, p. 92 n. 32, p. 132 n. 166, p. 250, authenticity uncertain; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. 117, some unusual features but probably authentic.
A.D. 990. See S 942. King Æthelred to the church of St Peter and All Saints, South Stoneham, Hants.; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Hinton Ampner, Hants.
A.D. 990. See S 944. King Æthelred to ?; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Weston in South Stoneham, Hants.
A.D. 993 (Winchester, Hants., Pentecost, i.e. 4 June; Gillingham, Dorset, 17 July). King Æthelred to Abingdon Abbey; confirmation of privileges, including the right of free election of a new abbot. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 38 (s. x2; BM Facs., iii. 36)
2. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 87v-89v (s. xiii)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 124r-125v (s. xii)
4. Bodleian, James 21, pp. 162-8 (s. xvi; incomplete; ex 1)
Printed: K 684; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 358-66; Thorpe, pp. 276-82; Councils and Synods, no. 39 (pp. 182-90); Kelly, Abingdon, no. 124.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Napier and Stevenson, p. 121 n., obviously authentic; Stevenson 1899, p. 42, MS 1 apparently somewhat later than 993; Stevenson 1912, p. 6 n. 17; Robinson 1918, p. 68, spurious; Watkin 1956, p. 229 and n. 47, on attestation of abbot of Malmesbury; John 1966, pp. 172, 181-209, entirely authentic; Whitelock et al. 1968, p. 24, may be genuine; Bishop 1971, p. 13, MS 1 contemporary, script similar to that in Lincoln, Cathedral Library, 182; Stenton 1971, p. 455 n. 1, on attestating abbots; HRH, p. 232, probably original, subscriptions are consistent but raise certain difficulties; Keynes 1978, p. 172 n. 5, on chrismon; Gelling, ECTV, no. 124, original; Keynes 1980, p. 11 nn 16-17, p. 27 n. 40, pp. 96, 98-101, 121, 176-7, 250-1, authentic, MS 1 original; Councils and Synods, pp. 179-82; Sawyer 1983, p. 294, on Gillingham; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. xix n. 16, an a witness; PN Dorset, iii. 9; Dumville 1992a, p. 54 n. 96, errors and rather advanced script make it a treacherous witness; Dumville 1993, p. 135 n. 100, authenticity uncertain; Lapidge 1993, pp. 431-4, on attestation of abbot of Winchcombe; Keynes 1996, p. 33; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 124, MS 1 seems contemporary or nearly contemporary, charter was probably drawn up at Abingdon with the king's permission
Note: There are apparently autograph crosses attached to some of the subscriptions. The witness-list has been partly revised. MS 1 is now in poor condition, and the beginning of Kemble's text is an incorrect reconstruction.
A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Ælfthryth, his mother; grant of 3.5 (sulunga) at Brabourne, 3.5 at Evegate, 2 at Burhwarefelda, 3 at Nackington, 3 at Chalk and 1 at Wirigenn (? Perry), Kent, forfeited by Wulfbald for many crimes. Ælfthryth gives in exchange land at Cholsey, Berks. Latin with English bounds and an account of Wulfbald's forfeiture in English.
Archive: Winchester, New Minster
MS: Earl of Macclesfield, Shirburn Castle, Liber Abbatiae, 34v-35v (s. xv1)
The text comprises: a. The grant in Latin b. Account of Wulfbald's crimes and his forfeiture in Old English c. Bounds in Old English d. Middle English version of sections b and c e. Abbreviated version of b in Latin f. WitnessesPrinted: Alford 1663, iii. 423-4 (Latin only, witness-list abbreviated); Edwards, Liber de Hyda, pp. 242-53, with translation of Old English sections, pp. 359-63; Robertson, Charters, no. 63 (pp. 128-31), section b only, with translation.
Translation: Whitelock, EHD, no. 120 (pp. 575-9).
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 336-51, on place-names; Robertson, Charters, pp. 372-7; Whitelock 1959, p. 82, on a witness; HRH, p. 236, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent, dates 989 x 990; Whitelock, EHD, p. 575; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 104, 130 n. 158, p. 201 n. 178, pp. 249, 254, authentic; Vollrath 1985, pp. 300-5, on synodal aspects; Wormald 1988, nos 57-8; Keynes 1991, pp. 78-9, on background; Keynes 1996, p. 33, Queen Ælfthryth may have consignd the charter to New Minster for safe-keeping.
Note: The date 993 earlier associated with S 877 arose from a misreading of the MS.
A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his minister; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Abbots Bromley, Staffs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/4/41 (s. x2; BA Facs., no. 12)
2. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 179rv = p. 357 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 201-3 ex MSS 1, 2; Sawyer, Burton, no. 27 ex MSS 1, 2; Hooke 1983, pp. 88, 90, bounds only.
Comments: Hart 1970/1, p. 24, on endorsement; Hart, ECNE, no. 91 and pp. 204-7, authentic, MS 1 perhaps a slightly later copy; Sawyer 1975/1, p. 34-5; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 47-8, authentic, MS 1 probably contemporary; Keynes 1980, p. 125 n. 135, pp. 133-4, 253-4, authentic, MS 1 probably original; Hooke 1983, pp. 88-91, on bounds; PN Staffs., i. 5 (citing wrong S no.), 16; BA Facs., p. 5, original; Keynes 1980/1, p. 216, on a witness.
A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his minister: grant of land at Pillaton, near Penkridge, Staffs. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/3/41 (s. xi2; BA Facs., no. 26)
2. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 179r = p. 357 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 196-8 ex MSS 1, 2; Sawyer, Burton, no. 26 ex MSS 1, 2; Hooke 1983, pp. 90, 92, bounds only.
Comments: HRH, p. 237, subscriptions consistent for 996; Hart, ECNE, no. 92 and pp. 198-200, spurious, based on S 878, rejects identification with Pillaton; Gelling 1978/1, p. 213, on identification; Sawyer 1978, p. 152, cited; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 44-5, a fabrication based on S 602, 878; Keynes 1980, p. 254, spurious; Hooke 1983, pp. 90, 92-3, 94, on bounds; PN Staffs., i. 91; BA Facs., p. 8, spurious.
? A.D. 994. See S 832a. King Æthelred to Athelney Abbey; grant of tithe from the royal estate at Somerton, Somserset.
A.D. 994. King Æthelred to Ealdred, bishop of Cornwall; grant of privileges. Latin.
Archive: Exeter (ex Bodmin)
MSS: 1. Exeter, D. & C., 2070 (s. x/xi; OS Facs., ii. Exeter 8)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 59, 226r-227r (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 250-3 (s. xvi)
4. Exeter, D. & C., 2105 (s. xiii)
5. Exeter, D. & C., 2408 (s. xvi)
6. Exeter, Dioc. R.O., E/R 1, 101r-102r (s. xiii)
7. Exeter, Dioc. R.O., E/R 1, 102v (s. xiii; shortened)
8. BL Harley 358, 31r-32r (s. xvi)
9. BL Lansdowne 447, 40v-41r (s. xvii; incomplete)
10. PRO Ch.R 36 Edw. III, no. 16
11. PRO Conf. R. 1 Hen. VIII, pt 5, no. 13
12. PRO Conf. R. 2 Hen. VIII, pt 1, no. 2
13. PRO Conf. R. 1 Mary, pt 1, no. 1
14. PRO Conf. R. 2 Eliz., pt 3, no. 1
15. London, Soc. Antiq., 128, 152rv (s. xvii)
16. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 21r-22v (s. xvii)
17. Bodleian, Dugdale 11, 3rv (s. xviii)
18. Bodleian, Eng. hist. c. 241, 38rv (s. xvii)
19. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 252, 18r-19r (s. xvii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 227-8; K 686 ex MS 8 and Mon. Angl.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii, 535 (no. 10) ex MS 4; Thorpe, pp. 285-7; HS, i. 683-6; Hingeston-Randolph 1889, pp. 482-4 ex MS 6.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, spurious; Finberg, ECDC, no. 95; Finberg 1964, p. 113, cited; Chaplais 1966, pp. 19-21 (no. 19), MS 1 original (= 1981, XV pp. 19-21); HRH, p. 232, original, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 28 n. 1, p. 191, original; Whitelock, EHD, p. 379, said to have been written by Archbishop Sigeric; Keynes 1980, pp. 100, 111, 124, 135 n. 171, p. 251, original, archbishop's contribution may have been limited, overall formulation accords well with that of contemporary diplomas; Chaplais 1985, p. 44, may have been composed by Sigeric or under his supervision, but not likely to have been written by him, certainly not a product of a royal chancery; Padel, CoPNE, p. 151; Olson 1989, pp. 74-7; Heslop 1992, p. 310 n. 43, on imposing visual appearance; Hooke 1994, p. 21, cited; Kelly, Abingdon, pp. 000-000, on production.
A.D. 994. King Æthelred to St Mary's Church, Wilton; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Fovant, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Wilton
MS: BL Harley 436, 39r-42v (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., ii. 866-7; Hoare, Reg. Wilton, pp. 22-4; K 687; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 326 (no. 9); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 68.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 191-7, bounds describe Fovant and Stoke Mandeville; Darlington 1955, p. 92, may be based on authentic material; Whitelock 1959, p. 81, on a witness; Finberg, ECW, no. 327, authentic; Davies 1972, p. 467, doubtful; HRH, p. 232, probably genuine basis at least, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 251, authentic; Hooke 1994/1, pp. 91-3, on bounds, with map; cf. S 364.
A.D. 995 for 994. King Æthelred to Æscwig, bishop (of Dorchester); confirmation of 30 hides (mansiunculae) at Monks Risborough, Bucks. The land had been sold to Æscwig by Sigeric, archbishop of Canterbury, for 90 pounds of silver and 200 mancuses of gold, in order to raise money to pay off the Danes threatening Canterbury. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. B, 347r-348r (s. xv)
Printed: K 689.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 117 (pp. 569-70).
Comments: Sisam 1953, p. 158 n. 3, obviously untrustworthy; Whitelock, EHD, p. 569, authentic, incarnation year probably miscopied, indiction and witnesses point to 994; Gelling, ECTV, no. 155, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 124, 251-2, authentic, identical witness-list and dating error in S 1379, discusses Bishop Æscwig's contribution in the drafting of these two texts; Baines 1981/1, pp. 91-2; Brooks 1984, pp. 283, 384 n. 80; Lawson 1984, p. 728, on background; cf. S 1378.
A.D. 995. King Æthelred to Æthelwig, his miles; grant of 5 hides (mansi) at Ardley, Oxon., forfeited by three brothers. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 96r-97r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1289; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 394-7; Thorpe, pp. 290-2, with translation of bounds; Earle, p. 391, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 37; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 125.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 118 (pp. 571-3).
Comments: Grundy, Oxon., pp. 1-3, on bounds; PN Oxon., i. 3, 5, 17, 196-7, 203, 220, ii. 483, on bounds; Stenton 1955, pp. 76-8; HRH, p. 234, probably authentic, subscriptions are consistent, dates 992 x 995 (probably 994); Hart, ECNE, p. 92 n. 1, basically authentic; PN Berks., ii. 438-9; Gelling, ECTV, no. 284, authentic, bounds probably describe modern parish of Ardley; Whitelock, EHD, p. 571; Keynes 1980, pp. 111, 113-14, 253, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 54; Keynes 1990, p. 226, cited; Keynes 1991, pp. 79-80, on background; Blair 1994, pp. 78, 103-4, 142, 144, on background; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 125, authentic.
A.D. 995. King Æthelred to Muchelney Abbey; confirmation of estates, with particular reference to land at Ilminster, which had been leased out by the abbey and then lost, and land at Camel, Somerset, partly purchased by Abbot Leofric with Æthelred's alms and partly donated by Ealdorman Æthelmær. Latin.
Archive: Muchelney
MSS: 1. Taunton, Somerset Record Office, DD/SAS PR 502 (s. x2; BA Facs., no. 11; Bates, Muchelney Cartulary, frontispiece; Campbell 1982, p. 200; Costen 1992/1, pl. 6)
2. BL Add. 56488, 10v-12r (s. xiv)
Printed: Bates, Muchelney Cartulary, no. 4 (pp. 43-5).
Comments: Stevenson 1899, p. 45, authentic; Robertson, Charters, p. 374, original; Stenton 1955, p. 15 n. 1, contemporary; Finberg, ECW, no. 520, original; Chaplais 1966, p. 21, original, compares script with that of S 880 (= 1981, XV p. 21); Bishop 1971, pp. xxvi, 7, scribe also appears in MSS from Christ Church, Canterbury; Whitelock, EHD, p. 372, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 120, 253, original; Edwards 1988, p. 207, certainly authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 55; BA Facs., p. 5, original; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on internal reference to the annulment of an earlier Ilminster landbook following the resolution of a dispute; Abrams 1996, p. 79, on Camel.
A.D. 995. King Æthelred to the bishopric of Rochester; restoration of 6 hides or sulungs (mansae or sulunga) at Wouldham and 1 hide (mansa) at Littlebrook, Kent, with swine-pastures in the Weald. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Rochester
MS: Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 152r-155r (s. xii1; facsimile)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 124-9, incomplete, ex MS*; K 688 ex Hearne; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 69; Campbell, Rochester, no. 31.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 309-13, on place-names; Sisam 1953, p. 158, cited; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xx-xxii, on estate history, pp. xxvi-vii, authentic; Witney 1976, pp. 227-8, 236, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 101-2, 121-2, 179, 253, authentic.
A.D. 995. King Æthelred to Wulfric (Spot), his minister; grant of 2.5 hides (mansae) in the common land at Dumbleton, Gloucs., forfeited by Æthelsige for theft, granted by the king to Hawase, his man, and now exchanged by Hawase for other land belonging to Wulfric. Latin with English.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 175-8 (s. xvi; ex 1)
3. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 48 (s. xiii2; sex 4)
4. BL Cotton. Claud. B. vi, 94v-95v (s. xiii)
5. BL Cotton Vitell. D. vii, 34v-35r (s. xvi; ex 2)
6. Bodleian, James 21, pp. 154-6 (s. xvi; ex 3)
Printed: K 692; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 388-92 ex MS 4; Essays, p. 357, in part, with translation of English; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 71; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 126.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 119 (pp. 573-5).
Comments: Vinogradoff 1893, p. 15; Robinson 1923, p. 37; Sisam 1953, p. 158 n. 2, cited, on date; Stenton 1955, p. 81 n. 1, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 139, authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 488, 495, on reference to common land; HRH, p. 232, genuine; Whitelock, EHD, p. 573; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 102, 185, 189 n. 123, 253, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 56; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 126, authentic.
A.D. 996. See S 877. King Æthelred to Ælfthryth, his mother; grant of 3.5 (sulunga) at Brabourne, 3.5 at Evegate, 2 at Burhwarefelda, 3 at Nackington, 3 at Chalk and 1 at Wirigenn (? Perry), Kent, forfeited by Wulfbald for many crimes. Ælfthryth gives in exchange land at Cholsey, Berks.
A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Eadric, Eadwig and Ealdred, brothers; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Bynsingtun land (? Benson, Oxon.). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 98v-99v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1292; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 404-6; PN Gloucs., ii. 484, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 127.
Comments: Grundy, Oxon., pp. 5-7, on bounds; Cam 1933, pp. 19-20, suggests that Bynsingtun land is the 4 and a half hundreds of Benson, later the Hundred of Ewelme; PN Oxon., i. 1-2, 15, 16, 119 n., may not be Bensington; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions are consistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 286, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 113 n. 93, p. 254, authentic; Blair 1994, p. 133, on territorial history; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 127, authentic.
A.D. 996. King Æthelred to St Albans Abbey; grant of 8 hides (mansae) in St Albans, comprising 4 at Burston in St Stephens and 4 at Wincelfelda (lost, also in St Stephens), and also 9 haga in the town, and 8 iugera at Westwick in St Michaels, Herts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: St Albans
MSS: 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, MS 7965-73 (3723), 157v-158r (s. xvii)
2. Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, 3v (s. xiv; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 149v-150r (s. xiii; no bounds)
4. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 153v-154r (s. xiii; no bounds)
Printed: Watts, Additamenta, pp. 240-1; K 696; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 225 (no. 9); Luard, Additamenta, pp. 15-18; Earle, pp. 402-5.
Comments: PN Herts., p. 99, on Wincelfelda; Whitelock et al. 1968, p. 25 n. 1, p. 29 n. 4; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 173, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 102-3, 121-3, 128 n. 142, pp. 254-5, authentic; Keynes 1993, p. 265, MS 1 contains two sets of vernacular bounds, for Burston and Wincelfelda, pp. 273-4, substantially authentic.
Note. MS 1 is not yet printed.
A.D. 996. King Æthelred to Old Minster Winchester; restoration of a messuage (haga) in Winchester with a fishery at Bræge (Brentford, Middx.). Ælfswith, matrona, had promised the Winchester haga to Old Minster after her death, but the bequest had been blocked. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 6v (s. xii)
Printed: K 1291; Earle p. 364, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 38.
Comments: Finberg, ECW, no. 142, authentic, discusses bounds; Hart 1970/1, p. 24 (no. 4), authentic; Biddle and Hill 1975, p. 75, on Winchester topography; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 234, 235, 340; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 102-3, 123, 255, authentic.
A.D. 996. See S 878. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his minister; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Abbots Bromley, Staffs.
A.D. 996. See S 879. King Æthelred to Wulfric, his minister: grant of land at Pillaton, near Penkridge, Staffs. Latin.
A.D. 997 (25 July). King Æthelred to Ælfwold, bishop; grant of 2 hides (cassati) at Sandford, Devon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Exeter (ex Crediton)
MS: BL Stowe Ch. 34 (s. x/xi; OS Facs., iii. 35)
Printed: OS Facs., iii. 35, with translation; Hooke 1990/1, p. 21, bounds only; Hooke 1994, p. 181, bounds only.
Comments: Rose-Troup 1942, p. 259, on bounds; Finberg, ECDC, no. 44; Bishop 1955, p. 195, possibly authentic.; Ker, Catalogue, p. xxxii, on script; Chaplais 1965, p. 60, scribe also wrote S 1492, the bishop's will (= 1973, p. 42); Chaplais 1966, p. 21 (no. 20), contemporary, seems to have been used as a model for S 1019 (= 1981, XV p. 21); Finberg 1969, pp. 38-44, authentic, with discussion of bounds (= 1968, pp. 65-70); Forsberg 1970, p. 74, on detail of bounds; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent, diploma probably original; Keynes 1980, pp. 120-1, 255, authentic but possibly a slightly later copy; Chaplais 1981, XV Addendum, original; Chaplais 1985, p. 45, original, probably written by a Crediton scribe; BA Facs., p. 6 (no. 18), possibly a copy; Hooke 1990/1, pp. 202-4, 207-9, on bounds; Dumville 1993, p. 24 n. 79, on script; Hooke 1994, pp. 181-4, on bounds.
A.D. 997 (Calne, Wilts., and Wantage, Berks.). King Æthelred to Old Minster, Winchester; restoration of 100 hides (mansae), comprising 55 at Downton and 45 at Ebbesborne, Wilts. The land had been granted by King Cenwalh (cf. S 229), confirmed (?) by King Cynewulf, restored by King Egbert (cf. S 275) and again by King Eadred (cf. S 540) and King Edgar (cf. S 819, 821). Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 16r-17r (s. xii)
Printed: K 698.
Comments: Hill 1910, pp. 52-6, on bounds; Grundy, Wilts. 1919, p. 150, on bounds, cf. S 229; Darlington 1955, pp. 8, 84; Watkin 1956, p. 229 and n. 47; Whitelock 1959, p. 80 n., spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 329 and p. 236, authentic; John 1965, pp. 411-12, very respectable; Hart 1970/1, p. 26 (no. 29), authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 455 n. 1, on witness-list; HRH, p. 232 (citing wrong S no.), subscriptions are consistent; PN Berks., i. 163; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 101-2, 180, 193, 196, 255, authentic; Sawyer 1983, pp. 291, 297, on meeting-places; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. xix, on a witness.
A.D. 998. King Æthelred to Leofwine, dux: grant of 7.5 hides (tributarii), comprising 3 hides (mansae) at Southam and 4.5 hides (manentes) at Ladbroke and Radbourne, Warwicks. The land had been forfeited by Wistan for murder. Latin with English and English bounds.
Archive: Coventry
MSS: 1. Bodleian, Eng. hist. a. 2 no. VI (s. x/xi; BA Facs., 13)
2. BL Cotton. Claud. A. viii, 80rv (s. xvi; bounds and endorsement only)
3. Bodleian, Dugdale 13, pp. 439-40 (s. xvii; bounds only)
Printed: Napier and Stevenson, pp. 19-22 (no. 8).
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, pp. 110-22, authentic; PN Warwicks., p. 135 n., on bounds of Ladbroke and Radbourne, pp. 144-5 n., on bounds of Southam; Hart 1970/1, p. 23, on endorsement; Hart, ECNE, no. 66, original; Keynes 1980, p. 104 n. 62, p. 135 n. 171, p. 256, authentic and original; Wormald 1988, no. 61; BA Facs., p. 5, unusual aspect but seems to be an original; Dumville 1994, p. 161 n. 151, script is old-fashioned, cf. also S 898; Hooke 1996, p. 112.
A.D. 998 (Easter). King Æthelred to St Andrew's church, Rochester; restitution of 6 sulungs at Bromley, Kent, with swine-pastures in the Weald. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vitell. E. v, 195rv (s. xvi)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 156v-159v (s. xii1; facsimile)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office (Liber Temporalium), 8rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 120-3; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 191-2; K 700 and vol. vi. 243 ex Hearne; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no 72; Campbell, Rochester, no. 32.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 299-301, 313, on place-names; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xvi-vii, on bounds, pp. xxiv-v, xxvi-viii, no reason for suspicion, discusses estate history; Rumble 1976, p. 172, on swine-pastures; Witney 1976, p. 220, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 101, 103, 121-2, 179, 255-6, authentic; Wormald 1986, pp. 158-9; Wormald 1988, no. 60.
A.D. 998. King Æthelred to Westminster Abbey; confirmation of privileges and of (a) 5 hides (mansae) at Westminster [formerly purchased by Dunstan from Edgar for 70 mancuses of gold]; (b) 3 at Logereslea (for Lothereslege, lost in Hendon), Middx. [formerly held by Brihtmær, purchased by Dunstan for £30 from King Edward and given to Winchester]; (c) 5 at Hampstead, Mddx [granted to Westminster by King Æthelred]; (d) 20 [at Hendon, Middx.] [of which 10 were purchased by Dunstan from Bishop Æthelwold and 10 from Wulfnoth, miles, for 80 pounds of silver]; (e) 3 at Codanhlaw [purchased by Dunstan from Eadnoth, minister, for 12 pounds]; (f) 8 at Hanwell, Middx. [acquired from Ælfwine for 30 pounds to enable him to go on pilgrimage, the arrangement to be reversed if he returned and repaid the money, the land meanwhile to be held by Dunstan for his lifetime, with reversion to Westminster]; (g) 10 at Sunbury [purchased by Dunstan from Ælfheah, dux, for 200 gold solidi, the reversion being given to Westminster after the life of a widow, Æthelflæd; (h) land at Shepperton, Mddx. [to revert to Westminster after the death of Æthelflæd]; (i) 5 hides at Brickendon, Herts. [bequeathed to Westminster by Ælfhelm Polga]; (j) 3 hides (cassati) at Sullington, Sussex [given by Ælfwine, the king's præfectus in Kent, for the soul of his wife]; (k) land at Paddington, Middx. [to revert to Westminster after the death of Wulfric]; (l) land at Cowley Peachey, Middx. [to revert after the death of Ælfric into the control of Bishop Wulfsige (of Sherborne)]. Latin.
Archive: Westminster
MS: London, Westminster Abbey, Muniment Bk 11, 77rv (s. xiv)
Printed: Thorpe, pp. 296-8.
Comment: Harmer, Writs, p. 287, spurious; Korhammer 1973, pp. 183-5, spurious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, dubious; Harvey 1977, pp. 22-3, 350, 352, 353, spurious but may be based on a genuine charter of Æthelred; Gelling, ECTV, no. 231 (pp. 87, 113-14), spurious but incorporates some early information; Keynes 1980, p. 122 n. 125, p. 256, spurious, apparently modelled in part on S 895; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xix, 42, modelled on S 895.
A.D. 998. King Æthelred to Wulfsige, bishop, and Sherborne Abbey; permission to convert the community to the Benedictine Rule, and confirmation of land at Stockland in Sherborne, Dorset; 9 hides (cassati) at Holcombe Rogus, Devon; 15 at Halstock, 7 at Thornford, 10 at Bradford Abbas, 5 at Oborne, 8 at Stalbridge Weston, 20 in Stalbridge, all in Dorset; 10 at Wulfheardigstoke; 8 at (Nether and Over) Compton, Dorset; 2 in Osanstoke; and 1 hide (mansa) at Lyme, Dorset. Latin.
Archive: Sherborne
MSS: 1. BL Add. 46487, 3r-4r (s. xii med.)
2. BL Cotton Otho A. xviii, 132r (s. xii1; damaged)
Printed: Wharton, Anglia Sacra, i. 170-1 ex MS 2; Hearne, Leland's Itinerary, ii. 80-1 ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 337 (no. 2) ex Hearne; K 701 ex Hearne and Mon. Angl.; Thorpe, pp. 293-4; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 11.
Comments: Ekwall 1936, p. 20, identifies Wulfheardigstoke and Osanstoke with Stoke Abbot, Dorset; Robertson, Charters, p. 448, on identification of Holcombe; Harmer, Writs, p. 485, spurious; Finberg, ECDC, no. 45; Finberg, ECW, no. 614, authentic basis; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent, otherwise dubious; Keynes 1980, p. 256, authentic; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xviii-xx, xxii, 41-4, border-line authenticity, possibly acceptable; PN Dorset, iii. 280, 283, 294, 324, 370-1; Lapidge 1993, p. 290, authentic; Hooke 1994, p. 116, cited; Faith 1997, pp. 19-22, on background.
A.D. 999. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; grant of 15 hides (cassati) at South Cerney, Gloucs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 169-70 (s. xvi; ex 1)
3. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 91r-92r (s. xiii)
4. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 126v (s. xii; incomplete)
5. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 201v (s. xii; bounds only)
6. BL Cotton Vitell. D. vii, 35v-36r (s. xvi; ex 2)
Printed: K 703; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 373-77; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 73; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 128.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs, pp. 61-4, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 13, on bounds; PN Gloucs., i. 12, 58-60; Finberg, ECWM, no. 141, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 11 nn. 16, 17, p. 27 n. 40, pp. 97, 256, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 63; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 128, probably authentic; cf. S 937.
A.D. 1000. King Æthelred to Abingdon Abbey and Abbot Wulfgar; grant of 5 hides (mansorum culturae), comprising 3 at Drayton and 2 at Sutton Courtenay, Berks, formerly belonging to Wulfgar, the king's pincerna.. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 99v-100r (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1294; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 406-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 39; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 130.
Comments: Whitelock 1937, p. 462 n. 2, date impossible; PN Berks., ii. 424; Gelling, ECTV, no. 125, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 99, p. 161 n. 29, p. 257, spurious; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 130, probably spurious; cf. S 851.
A.D. 1001. King Æthelred to Clofi; grant of 25 hides (mansi) at Long Itchington and Arley, Warwicks. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Coventry
MS: BL Cotton Aug. ii. 22 (s. x/xi; BM Facs,, iv. 12)
Printed: K 705.
Comments: PN Warwicks., p. 123 n., on bounds of Arley, pp. 133-4 n., on bounds of Long Itchington; Sisam 1953, pp. 148-9 n. 3; Stenton 1955, p. 74, authentic, unusual structure; Hart, ECEE, p. 193, original; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent, probably original; Hart, ECNE, no. 68, original, subscriptions of two æthelings are later additions; Keynes 1980, p. 125 n. 135, p. 135 n. 171, p. 257, original; Hooke 1980-1, map of bounds; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, pp. 224-5, on script; Dumville 1994, p. 161 n. 151, slightly old-fashioned script, cf. also S 892; Hooke 1996, pp. 106, 111-12, with map.
A.D. 1001. King Æthelred to Shaftesbury Abbey; grant of the cenobium of Bradford-on-Avon, Wilts., with land at Bradford. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Shaftesbury
MSS: 1. BL Harley 61, 1r-2v (s. xv; Pafford 1952, p. 210; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pl. 1 (opp. p. 122), in part)
2. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 1r-2v (s. xvii; no bounds; ex 1)
3. Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas, Kenneth Spenser Research Library, Dpt of Special Collections, E 107, pp. 13-14 (s. xvi; ex 1)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 216-17; K 706; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 479-80 (no. 7); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 74; Pafford 1952, pp. 212-13, bounds only, with translation; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 29.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1920, pp. 101-6, on bounds; Robinson 1925, pp. 107-8, on bounds; Pafford 1952, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 31 and n., authenticity defended, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 330, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 374 n. 1, no suspicious features; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions corrupt but not unrecognizable, probably basically authentic; Campbell 1978, p. 266 n. 22, original may have survived into Wanley's time; Gem 1978, pp. 109-10; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 104-7, 133-4, 257, authentic; Meyer 1981, p. 350 n. 4, cited; Haslam 1984, pp. 90-4, with map, on Bradford; Harvey 1984, on bounds; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 119-22, authentic.
A.D. 1002. (a) King Æthelred to Ælfhelm, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Codicote, Herts., in return for 152 mancuses of gold. (b) Ælfhelm grants the land to St Albans. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: St Albans
MSS: 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), 161v-162v (s. xvii)
2. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), 175v-176r (s. xvii)
3. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 151r (s. xiii; no bounds)
4. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 154v-155r (s. xiii; no bounds)
Printed: K 1297 ex MS 3; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 18-20 ex MS 3; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 42 ex K.
Comments: HRH, p. 235, subscriptions are consistent; Gelling, ECTV, no. 174, authentic basis, section recording Ælfhelm's grant to St Albans probably an interpolation; Keynes 1980, pp. 107-8, on formulation, p. 258, authentic; Keynes 1993, pp. 266, 270, 274, substantially authentic, with interpolation.
Note. MSS 1 and 2 are as yet unprinted.
A.D. 1002. King Æthelred to Ælfric, archbishop; grant of 24 hides (mansae) at Dumbleton, Gloucs., including land comprising 17 hides to the west of the river Isbourne (i.e. at Dumbleton), 2 hides in the common land at Aston Somerville, Gloucs., and 5 hides of woodland at Fleferth (? Kington near Flyford Flavell, Worcs.), in return for 50 talents. The land had been forfeited by a woman for adultery. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 100v-101v (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 127rv (s. xii; no bounds)
3. Bodleian, Gough Berks. 20, 5v-6v, 7rv (s. xviii; ex 1)
Printed: K 1295; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 411-15; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 40; Hooke 1990, p. 351, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 132.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 116-18, on bounds of Dumbleton; Grundy, Worcs. 1928, pp. 41-2, on bounds of Fleferth; PN Gloucs., i. 9, ii. 3, 9, 11; Finberg, ECWM, no. 143 (pp. 65, 125), authentic; Finberg 1972, pp. 488, 495, on reference to common land; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions almost consistent, but two bishops of Dorchester sign; Hooke 1980, pp. 40, 48; Keynes 1980, pp. 107-8, on formulation, pp. 258-9, apparently authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 68; Hooke 1990, pp. 351-3, on bounds; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 132, authentic.
A.D. 1002. King Æthelred to Godwine, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Little Haseley, Oxon., in return for 30 mancuses of gold. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 100rv (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1296; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 408-11; Earle, pp. 391-2, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 41; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 131.
Comments: PN Oxon., i. 15, 90, 123, 128, 131, ii. 486-7; Gelling, ECTV, no. 288, authentic, bounds describe the south-western part of the parish of Great Haseley; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 40, pp. 107-8, on formulation, p. 259, apparently authentic; Blair 1994, pp. 128, 143, on estate; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 131, authentic.
A.D. 1002. King Æthelred to Westminster Abbey; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Berewican, near Tyburn, Middx, in return for 100 mancuses of gold. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Westminster
MS: London, Westminster Abbey, W.A. Muniment Book 11, 77v-78r (s. xiv)
Printed: Robinson 1911, pp. 167-8.
Comments: Robinson 1911, pp. 168-70; PN Middx, pp. 10, 143, 165, 167, 174, and pp. 222-3, on bounds; Gelling 1954, on bounds; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 232, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 108, on formulation, p. 259, apparently authentic; cf. S 670.
A.D. 1002. King Æthelred to Abbess Heanflæd and Wherwell Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of 70 hides (mansae) in the vicinity of the abbey, and grant of 60 hides (cassati) at Æthelingadene (East and West Dean, Sussex), previously belonging to Queen Ælfthryth. Latin. With note, in Latin and English, dated 1008, confirming 29 messuages in Winchester to the abbey and granting 10 hides (mansae) at Bullington, Hants.
Archive: Wherwell
MSS: 1. BL Egerton 2104 A, 15r-16r (s. xiv)
2. PRO Ch.R. 44 Hen. III, m. 1
3. PRO Conf. R. 2 Hen. VIII, pt 7, no. 9
4. PRO Pat. R. 41 Edw. III, pt 1, m. 33
5. PRO Pat. R. 9 Hen. VI, pt 1, m. 2
6. PRO Pat. R. 22 Edw. IV, pt 1, m. 18
7. Schøyen Collection 1354 (s. xvi; single-sheet Inspeximus of Henry VIII)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 257-8; Alford 1663, iii. 430-1; K 707 ex Mon. Angl.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 637-8 (no. 3) ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 75.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 202 n. 2, doubtful; PN Sussex, i. p. xlv; Harmer, Writs, p. 551, cited; Finberg, ECW, no. 149, authentic basis; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent in MS 1; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, note on witness-list; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 457 n. 6, dubious; Keynes 1980, pp. 104-7, on formulation, compare S 899, pp. 133-4, on witnesses, p. 258, apparently authentic, witness-list in K 707 is hopelessly corrupt, much better version in MSS 1, 7; Meyer 1981, pp. 343-5, cited; Meyer 1993, pp. 99-100; Kelly, Selsey, p. 28, on Æthelingadene.
A.D. '1003' for 1002 (Canterbury, 11 July). King Æthelred to Æthelred, his faithful man; lease, for the lives of himself and his wife, of land in Canterbury and of 6 agri outside the city, in return for 7 pounds, with reversion to Christ Church, Canterbury. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Christ Church, Canterbury
MSS: 1. BL Stowe Ch. 35 (s. x/xi; OS Facs., iii. 36; Golden Age, p. 165 (no. 168); Ward 1955, facing p. 41)
Short version
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 200v (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 23v (s. xii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 327 (s. xiii)
5. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 18r (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2222 ex MS 2; OS Facs., iii. 36, with translation; Ward 1955, pp. 56-7; Fleming 1997, p. 138 (no. 57) ex MS 3.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 124 (pp. 585-6).
Comments: Whitelock 1937, p. 461, date should be 1002; Ward 1955; Bishop 1963, pp. 414, 420, 421, 423, scribe appears elsewhere in Christ Church manuscripts; Whitelock, EHD, p. 585, contemporary, discusses date; Keynes 1980, p. 33 n. 54, p. 108 n. 70, may be a contemporary copy, p. 259, authentic; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 8, on Canterbury topography; Backhouse 1984, pp. 98, 112 n. 14, on script; Brooks 1984, p. 277, on scribe, p. 380 n. 16, authentic; Golden Age, pp. 164-5 (no. 168); Dumville 1993, pp. 100-1 n. 91, original, third minim in date appears to be addition, pp. 109-10 n. 142, Canterbury identity of scribemay be questionable.
A.D. 1004. King Æthelred to Burton Abbey; confirmation of privileges and lands granted by Wulfric as in his will (S 1536). The estates in question are Dumbleton, Gloucs.; in south Lancs.; in Wirral; at Rolleston, Harlaston, Staffs.; Beorelfestune (? Barlaston, Staffs. or Barlestone, Leics.); Marchington, Staffs.; Conisborough, Yorks. W.R.; Alvaston, Derbys.; Northtune (? Norton juxta Twycross, Leics.); Elford, Oakley, Tamworth, Balterley, Staffs.; Walesho (? Wales, WRY); Thorpe Savin, WRY; Whitwell, Clowne, Barlborough, Duckmanton, Mosborough, Eckington, Beighton, Derbys.; Doncaster, WRY; Morlingtune; Austrey, Warwicks.; Palterton, Derbys.; Wibtoft, Warwicks.; Twongan (? Tonge, Leics., or Tong, Salop); Burton upon Trent, Stretton, Bromley, Pillaton, Gailey, Whiston, Staffs.; Laganford (? Longford, Salop); Stirchley, Staffs.; Niwantun æt thære wic (probably Newton by Middlewich, Cheshire); Wædedun, Niwantun (? Newton Solney, Derbys.); Winshill, Staffs.; Suttun; Ticknall, Derbys.; Shenton, Wigston Parva, Lecis.; Halen (? Hawne in Halesowen, Worcs.); Hremesleage (? Romsley, Salop); Shiplea, Salop; Suthtune (? Sutton Maddock, Salop); Actune (? Acton Trussel in Baswich, Staffs.); Darlaston, Rudyard, Cotwalton, Church Leigh, Staffs.; Okeover, Ilam, Cauldon, Derbys.; Castern, Staffs.; Suthtune (? Sutton on the Hill, Derbys.); Morley, Breadsall, Morton, Pilsley, Ogston, North Wingfield, Snodeswic, Derbys.; Tathwell, Lincs.; Appleby Magna, Leics.; Weston in Arden, Burton Hastings, Warwicks.; Sharnford, Leics.; Harbury, Warwicks.; Aldsworth, Arlington, Gloucs.; Eccleshale (? Eccleshall, Staffs.); Waddune; Sheen, Staffs.; Langandune (? Longdon, Staffs.); Bupton, Stretton, Derbys. Latin with English.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Burton-on-Trent Museum, Burton Muniment 1 (s. xi2; OS Facs., iii, Anglesey 2)
2. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 179v-180v = pp. 358-60 (s. xiv)
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 278-9 (s. xvi)
4. BL Cotton Vesp. E. iii, 4r (s. xiii; incomplete)
5. BL Harley 358, 40v-41r (s. xvi; ex 1)
6. BL MS Loans 30 (Marquess of Anglesey), 8r-9r (s. xiii1)
7. Bodleian, Dodsworth 38, 25r-26v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
8. Bodleian, Dugdale 11, 9r-10r (s. xvii; ex 1, 6)
9. Bodleian, James 25, pp. 163-4 (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 6)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 269-70; K 710 ex Mon. Angl.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 39-40 (no. 4) ex MS 6; Luard, Annales Monastici, i. 183; OS Facs., iii., Angelsey 2, with translation; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 76; Sawyer, Burton, no. 28 (and endorsements, pp. xxxv-vii).
Translated: Duignan and Carter 1886, pp. 103-7; Stevenson 1911/1, pp. 13-14; Bridgeman 1916, pp. 115-18 (no. 22).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 118-19; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 151-60; Jeayes 1937, no. 1; Whitelock 1943, p. 123; Finberg, ECWM, no. 146, authentic, with correction p. 237; HRH, p. 232, MS 1 not original but charter possibly genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 40 (pp. 71, 84, 99, 109, 126), authentic; Keynes 1978, p. 170 n. 5, on chrismon, MS 1 late 11th century; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xxxiv-viii, 53, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 106-7, on formulation, p. 123, on connection with S 920, p. 260, authentic, MS 1 a later copy; PN Staffs., i. 91, 103; Hooke 1990, p. 327, cited; cf. S 1536.
A.D. 1004. King Æthelred to Ely Abbey; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Littlebury, Essex. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Ely
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1, 63r (s. xii; incomplete)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 41, pp. 92-5 (s. xii. med)
3. Cambridge, U.L., EDC, Liber M, pp. 67-8 (s. xiii2; no bounds)
4. Ely, D. & C., Liber Eliensis, 62rv (s. xiii; incomplete)
5. BL Add. 5811, 2r (s. xviii; no bounds)
6. BL Cotton Tib. A. vi, 99v-100r (s. xii2)
7. Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 647, 38v (s. xii; incomplete)
Printed: Gale, Scriptores XV, pp. 521-2; K 711 ex MS 5; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 476 (no. 6); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 77; Blake, Liber Eliensis, pp. 129-30.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; PN Essex, p. 530 n. 1, on bounds; Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 417, apparently based on S 780; Hart, ECE, no. 36, authentic basis, bounds include estate at Strethle (Stretley Green) granted in S 919 so cannot be contemporary, diplomatic based on S 780; Hart, ECNE, p. 195; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 100, p. 260, not authentic as it stands, but partly based on contemporary diploma.
A.D. 1004 x 1014. King Æthelred confirms the grant by Æthelflæd to St Paul's, of 2 hides (mansae) at Laver, Essex, and 4 at Cockhampstead, Herts. (cf. S 1495) Latin.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: 1. London, Guildhall, 25501, 38r (s. xiii; no witnesses)
2. London, Guildhall, 25504, 6rv (s. xiii)
3. London, St Paul's, D. & C., Liber B, 21r (s. xiii; lost)
4. Bodleian, James 23, p. 33 (s. xvii; witnesses only)
Printed: Dugdale, St Paul's, pp. 187-8 ex MSS 1, 3; Mon. Angl., iii. 303; Dugdale, St Paul's, (rev. edn), Appendix, p. 12; K 1300; Gibbs 1939, p. 3, ex MS 4.
Comments: Whitelock, Wills, pp. 175-6, purports to be confirmation of S 1495; Gibbs 1939, p. 3 n. 1; Hart, ECE, no. 38, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 175, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 268, spurious, witness-list must be imaginary.
A.D. 1004 (Headington, Oxon., 7 Dec.). King Æthelred to St Frideswide's Abbey, Oxford; confirmation of 10 hides at Upper Winchendon, Bucks., and 3 at Whitehill in Tackley, 3 at Cowley, 3 at Cutslow, and land at Headington, all Oxon. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Oxford, St Frideswide's
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Vitell. E. xv, 5r (s. xiii; damaged)
2. BL Harley 258, 16r (s. xvii; beginning only; ex 8)
3. PRO Ch.R. 6 Edw. II, no. 21
4. PRO Ch.R. 6 Edw. III, no. 17
5. PRO Ch.R. 3 Ric. II, no. 17
6. PRO Pat. R. 5 Hen. V, m. 3
7. Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 160, p. 271 (s. xiii; no bounds or witnesses)
8. Oxford, Christ Church, St Frideswide's Cartulary, p. 7 (s. xv)
9. Bodleian, Dodsworth 55, 17rv (s. xvii; no bounds or witnesses)
10. Bodleian, Dodsworth 55, pp. 25-6 (s. xvii; ex Inspeximus)
11. Bodleian, Dodsworth 55, pp. 36-7 (s. xvii; ex Inspeximus)
12. Bodleian, Dodsworth 55, pp. 44-5 (s. xvii; ex Inspeximus)
13. Bodleian, James 26, pp. 153-4 (s. xvii; no bounds or witnesses)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 174, ex MS 1; K 709; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. (no. 4); Parker 1885, pp. 320-2 ex MS 8; Wigram, St Frideswide's Cart., pp. 2-6 ex MSS 1, 3, 7, 8; pp. 6-7 bounds ex MS 4; pp. 8-9, bounds ex MS 3; Reed 1979, p. 183, bounds of Upper Winchendon only, ex Wigram; PN Oxon, ii. 485-6, 489, bounds of Cowley, Cutslow and Whitehill only.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 127 (pp. 590-3).
Comments: Stevenson 1896, p. 737 n. 28, authentic; Plummer 1899, p. 182, spurious; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 15-17, 24-6, on Oxon. bounds; Stenton 1936, pp. 105-6, authentic (= 1970, pp. 226-7); Tengstrand 1940, pp. 106-7; Forsberg 1950, p. 30, on bounds; PN Oxon., i. 3, 4, 6, 27, 39, 32, 35, ii. 267, 268, 271, 485-6, 489; Baines 1972, on Winchendon bounds; Gelling, ECTV, no. 289 (pp. 78, 137-8), may be interpolated; Reed 1979, pp. 181-4, on bounds; Whitelock, EHD, p. 590, authentic, bounds may not be contemporary, section concerning Headington perhaps a spurious addition; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 127, 204-5, 260, authentic; Cooper 1985, pp. 16-17, 21-3, on Whitehill and Cotteslowe bounds; Blair 1994, p. 128, on Cowley boundary, pp. 167-8, on background; Pelteret 1995, p. 282.
A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to Eadsige, his minister (gerefa in rubric); grant of 1 hide (mansa) at Seaton, Devon, in return for 100 mancuses of gold. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Sherborne (ex Horton)
MS: BL Add. 46487, 27v-29r (s. xii med.)
Printed: K 1301; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 43; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 19; Hooke 1994, p. 190, bounds only.
Comments: Davidson 1885, p. 193, authentic, pp. 195-6, bounds describe eastern half of Seaton parish; PN Devon, p. 629 n.; Finberg, ECDC, no. 48; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions are consistent, charter probably genuine; Keynes 1980, pp. 114, 260, authentic; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxiii, xxix, lxii, 66-8, authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 240, cited; Hooke 1994, pp. 190-3, on bounds.
A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to Eynsham Abbey; confirmation of the foundation by Æthelmær, the endowment including (a) 30 hides (mansiunculae) at Eynsham [acquired from his father Æthelweard in exchange for 3 hides at Upottery, Devon; 10 at Little Compton, Warwicks.; 10 at Lawling in Latchingdon, Essex; and 13 at Scildforda]; (b) 5 hides at Shipton-on-Cherwell and the vill at Shifford, Oxon [granted by King Edgar to Brihtnoth, dux, and bequeathed by Leofwine to Æthelmær]; (c) Mickleton, Gloucs. [granted by charter by King Edgar to Brihtnoth, and bequeathed by Brihtnoth to Æthelmær]; (d) 5 hides at Burton [given to Æthelmær by Æthelweard]; (e) 1.5 hides at Marlcliff in Bidford-on-Avon and 2 at Bentley in Holt, Worcs. [among lands forfeited by Leoftæt, for which Æthelmær gave 30 pounds to King Edgar]; (f) 10 hides at Yarnton, Oxon. [acquired from Godwine, in exchange for 5 hides at Studley, Warwicks. or Oxon., and 10 at Chesterton, Warwicks. or Oxon.]; (g) 20 hides at Esher, Surrey [granted by Brihthelm, bishop, to Æthelweard, and bequeathed by Æthelweard to his son, Æthelmær]; (h) land at Thames Ditton, Surrey (cf. S 847); and (i) Rameslege (lost, corresponds with Brede, Sussex) [bequeathed to Eynsham by Wulfin (Wulfwyn), Æthelmær's kinswoman]. Latin with English and English bounds.
Archive: Eynsham
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, between pp. 225 and 227 (s. xvi)
2. BL Cotton Claud. A. viii, 131r-132v (s. xvi)
3. BL Cotton Vesp. B. xv, 7rv (s. xvi; incomplete)
4. BL Harley 258, 1r-3r (s. xvii; ex 11)
5. London, Lambeth Palace, 321, pp. 58-9 (s. xvi)
6. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 58r-60v (s. xvii; no bounds)
7. Bodleian, Dodsworth 55, 9v-11v (s. xvii; no bounds)
8. Bodleian, Dodsworth 78, 13r-15r (s. xvii; no bounds; ex 2)
9. Bodleian, Dugdale 21, 1r-3r (s. xvii)
10. Bodleian, James 8, pp. 7-8 (s. xvi; incomplete)
11. Oxford, Christ Church, Eynsham Cart., 7r-9v (s. xii; reproduction of 9r in Salter, Eynsham Cart., i, facing p. xxxii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 258-62; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., plate at p. 144, fig. D, part only; K 714 ex Mon. Angl.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 11-13 (no. 1); Thorpe, p. 299, part only; Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 19-28 ex MS 11, with translation of bounds); Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 78; PN Oxon., ii. 486-7, bounds of Eynsham, Shipton and Shifford.
Comments: Stevenson in Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 20-2; Round in Salter, Eynsham Cart., ii. p. xcviii; Grundy, Oxon., pp. 33-6, on bounds; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 169-72, on bounds of Mickleton; PN Surrey, pp. 90 n., 92 n., on bounds of Esher and Thames Ditton; PN Sussex, ii, pp. vi-vii; PN Warwicks., p. 202 n. 2; Whitelock 1943, p. 123; Robertson, Charters, pp. 386-7; Finberg, ECDC, no. 47; PN Oxon., i. 3, 7, 8, 11, 15, 17, 206, ii. 258, 261, 264, 280, 282, 296, 302, 327, 486-7; PN Gloucs., i. 8, 237, 242, 249, 251, 261; Hart, ECEE, pp. 176, 189, partly based on S 792; John 1966, p. 208 n.; Barker 1967, p. 90; Hart, ECE, no. 39, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 551, cited with reference to witnesses; Finberg, ECWM, no. 148 (pp. 66, 125), authentic; HRH, p. 232, probably authentic, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 69, authentic; Gem 1978, p. 112; Gelling, ECTV, no. 290 (pp. 138-9, 162-3), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 114 n. 103, p. 260, authentic; Cooper 1985, pp. 18-20, on Shipton bounds, with map p. 17; Wormald 1988, no. 70; Gordon 1990, pp. 4-33, on background; Hooke 1990, pp. 328-9; Hart 1992, p. 132 n. 51; Lawson 1993, p. 240, cited; Blair 1994, pp. 78, 130-3, on Oxon. bounds and topography; Hooke 1994, p. 185.
A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to St Albans Abbey; grant of 1 hide (cassata) at Flamstead and 5 at St Albans, Herts., with renewal of extensive liberties granted by King Offa. Abbot Leofric had given 200 pounds of gold and silver to the king to pay off the Danes, receiving in exchange these 6 hides and 55 hides at Eadulfinctun; but now he has returned Eadulfinctun. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: St Albans
MSS: 1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), 158v-160r (s. xvii)
2. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), 172r-174r (s. xvii)
3. Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, 2v (s. xiv; no bounds)
4. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 150rv (s. xiii; no bounds)
5. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 154rv (s. xiii; no bounds)
Printed: Watts, Additamenta, pp. 241-2; Alford 1663, iii. 447-8; K 672 ex MS 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 225-6 (no. 10); Luard, Additamenta, pp. 21-4 ex MS 4; Earle, pp. 399-402; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 45.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, p. 78, somewhat dubious, pp. 99-100, if spurious 'a singularly clever imitation', p. 121 n., complex date probably means 1005; Gelling, ECTV, no. 176, authentic basis, for immunity clause cf. S 1031; Sawyer, Burton, p. 57, notes similarities with S 917; Keynes 1980, pp. 109-11, on formulation, may be interpolated, pp. 260-1, apparently authentic; Lawson 1984, p. 725, cited; BA Facs., p. 8; Keynes 1993, pp. 265, 270, 273-4, authentic; Kennedy 1995, p. 128 n., provisions on judicial liberty suspicious, cf. S 136, 1488.
A.D. 1005. King Æthelred to the bishopric of St Davids (Deowiesstow); grant of land at Over in Almondsbury, Gloucs. (with reversion to the church of Worcester after 3 lives, MS 1 only). Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Nero. E. i, pt 2, 184v (s. xi)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 118v (s. xi)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, p. 479 ex MS 1; Ker 1948, p. 73 ex MS 2, p. 74 ex MS 1.
Comments: Ker 1948, pp. 73-4, possibly no more than formulary exercises; Finberg, ECWM, no. 147, authentic, background to the grant may have been a period when the bishop of St Davids acted as deputy for the bishop of Worcester; Keynes 1980, p. 115 n. 110, p. 261, abbreviated, authenticity uncertain.
A.D. 1006 for 1002. King Æthelred to Christ Church, Canterbury; refoundation of the monastic community and confirmation of land at Eastry, Ickham, Bossington, Adisham, Appledore, Swarling, Preston, Graveney, Westwell, Chart and Farleigh, Kent; at Patching, Sussex; at Meopham and Cooling in West Kent; at Walworth, Surrey; at Risborough, Bucks.; at Lawling in Latchingdon, Essex; at Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; and in Thanet. Latin and English versions.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: Latin
1. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 78v-79r (s. xv)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 24v-25v (s. xii)
3. BL Cotton Claud. A. iii, 2r-3v (s. xi)
4. BL Harley 1757, 171rv (s. xvi)
5. London, Lambeth Palace, 585, p. 3 (s. xvii; extract)
6. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 327-8 (s. xiii)
7. Bodleian, Gough Berks. 20, 9r-10v (s. xviii; ex 3)
8. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 18r-19r (s. xvi)
English
9. BL Cotton Claud. A. iii, 4r-6r (s.xi)
10. Bodleian, Gough Berks. 20, 11r-12v (s. xviii; ex 9)
Printed: Latin
Alford 1663, iii. 434-5; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 284-5; K 715; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 99 (no. 5) ex MS 3; Fleming 1997, pp.141-3 (no. 70) ex MS 2.
English: Wilkins, Concilia, i. 282-4; K 715 with end of witness-list printed as last four lines of K 847; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 99 (no. 6), last three lines are end of this witness-list as in K 847.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, p. 135 n. 1, it must be dated 1001 or 1002; Plummer 1899, p. 179, spurious; Stevenson in Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 20 n. 3, spurious; Robinson 1926, p. 238, spurious; PN Bucks., pp. 170, 174; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 313-14, on place-names; Whitelock 1937, p. 461 and n. 6, cannot be later than 1002; Whitelock, Wills, p. 176, of doubtful authenticity; Harmer, Writs, p. 453; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 239-40 (no. 185), art. a, scribe of MSS 3, 9 writing s. xi1; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 174, on scribe of MSS 3, 9 (= 1973, p. 59); Hart, ECEE, no. 84, spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 40, spurious; HRH, p. 232, ? for 1002, probably spurious; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, reassesses as authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 157 (pp. 77-8, 162), spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 261, spurious; Brooks 1984, pp. 257-9, spurious, discusses scribe of MSS 3, 9; Hart 1992, pp. 461-2, spurious in received form, but contains authentic information; Lapidge 1992, pp. 258-9, forged in 11th century (= 1993, p. 290); Pfaff 1992, pp. 278-9, on scribe of MSS 3, 9; Dumville 1993, pp. 126, disputes identification of scribe of MSS 3, 9.
A.D. 1007 (Beorchore). King Æthelred to Ælfgar, his prepositus; grant of 8 hides (mansi) at Waltham St Lawrence, Berks., in return for 300 mancuses of gold and silver. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 102v-103v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1303; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 419-22; PN Berks., iii. 638, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 134.
Comments: Grundy, Berks. 1927, pp. 134-5, argues that bounds are those of Shottesbrooke, Berks.; Stenton 1971, p. 537, cited; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions are consistent; PN Berks., ii. 73, 112, iii. 635-6, 638-9, bounds are those of Waltham St Lawrence; Gelling, ECTV, no. 127, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 112, 114, 126-7, 262-3, authentic; Sawyer 1983, p. 298, Beorchore unidentified; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 134, authentic.
A.D. 1007. King Æthelred to St Albans Abbey; grant of land at Norton, 1 hide (mansa) at Rodanhangra and land at Oxhey, Herts., originally granted to the abbey by King Offa but subsequently lost, and later forfeited to King Æthelred by Leofsige, dux, and purchased for St Albans by Archbishop Ælfric and Abbot Leofric Latin with English bounds.
Archive: St Albans
MSS: 1. Bodleian, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. VII (s. xi1; BA Facs., 16; Bishop 1971, pl. XV, in part; Price 1897)
2. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-6 (3723), 160r-161v (s. xvii)
3. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-6 (3723), 174r-175r (s. xvii)
4. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 150v-151r (s. xiii)
5. BL Cotton Nero D. i, 154v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 1304 ex MSS 4, 5; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 24-7 ex MSS 4, 5; Napier and Stevenson, pp. 24-7 (no. 11) ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 44.
Comments: Napier and Stevenson, pp. 133-5, authentic; Price 1897; Andrews 1912; PN Herts., pp. 106, 114, on bounds; Stenton 1955, pp. 78-9; Bishop 1971, p. 15 (no. 17), original, probably written at St Albans; Gelling, ECTV, no. 177, MS 1 original; Keynes 1980, pp. 122-3, 262, original, may have been drawn up at St Albans; Doggett 1984, on bounds; Wormald 1988, no. 71; BA Facs., p. 6; Heslop 1992, p. 308 n. 33, on red initials in MS 1; Dumville 1993, p. 135, on script; Keynes 1993, pp. 265-6, 270, 273, on MSS 2, 3.
A.D. 1007. King Æthelred to an unnamed minister; grant of land at an unspecified place. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 181v-182r = pp. 362-3 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 208-9; Sawyer, Burton, no. 30.
Comments: Hart, ECNE, pp. 209-11, possibly an exemplar for a forgery; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 57-8, appears to be a draft or formulary; Keynes 1980, pp. 109-11, on formulation, pp. 115-16 n. 110, p. 263, may be a forgery.
Note. Concludes with a notarial subscription: 'Ego Winsye monachus qui hoc testamentum dictitaui atque perscripsi'.
A.D. 1008. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; restitution of 20 hides (mansi) at Moredon in Rodbourne Cheney, Wilts., and grant of a prediolum at Cricklade, Wilts. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 92r-93r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 127r (s. xii; incomplete)
Printed: K 1305; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 377-82; Earle, p. 395, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 135.
Comments: Grundy, Wilts. 1919, pp. 284-8, on bounds; Darlington 1955, pp. 16, 87; Finberg, ECW, no. 332, authentic, bounds identical with those of S 705; Stenton 1971, p. 531, cited; Radford 1972, p. 104, on Cricklade property; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions probably consistent; Hart, ECNE, p. 92 n. 1, some doubtful elements; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, p. 27 n. 40, p. 183 and n. 110, p. 263, spurious, possible that a genuine tradition was incorporated in a charter modelled on S 915; Haslam 1981, on Cricklade property; Wormald 1988, no. 72; Keynes 1991, pp. 80-1 n. 90; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 135, suspicious.
Note. The land had been seized in the time of Abbot Eadwine by Ælfgar, the king's prepositus, with Æthelred's permission but illegally. Ælfgar gave the land to his wife, Ælfgifu, who survived him and married Wulfgeat. Later the property of Ælfgifu and Wulfgeat was forfeited to the king, and Abbot Wulfgar made a request for the return of the estate.
A.D. 1008. King Æthelred to Ely Abbey; grant of 19 hides (cassati), comprising 2 hides (mansae) at Hadstock and 10 at Stretley Green in Littlebury, Essex; and 7 at Linton, Cambs., in return for 9 pounds of pure gold. Latin.
Archive: Ely
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Trinity College, O. 2. 1, 70rv (s. xii)
2. Cambridge, U.L., EDC, Liber M, pp. 68-9 (s. xiii2)
3. Ely, D. & C., Liber Eliensis, 68v-69r (s. xiii)
4. BL Cotton Titus A. i, 55v-56r (s. xii)
5. Bodleian, Laud. Misc. 647, 41v-42r (s. xii)
Printed: K 725 ex MS 4; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 80; Blake, Liber Eliensis, pp. 145-6 ex MS 3.
Comments: Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 145 n. 3, on estates; Hart, ECEE, no. 66, authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 41, authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 195, 214, 247, based on a text from Athelstan's reign; Keynes 1980, p. 86 n. 15, p. 263, authentic.
A.D. 1008. King Æthelred to Wulfgeat, abbot, and Burton Abbey; grant of 2.5 hides (cassati) at Rolleston, Staffs., in exchange for the vills of Aldsworth and Arlington, Gloucs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 182rv = pp. 363-4 (s. xiii med.)
2. BL MS Loans 30 (Marquess of Anglesey), 10rv (s. xiii)
3. Bodleian, Dugdale 11, 11v (s. xvii)
Printed: Shaw, Staffordshire, i. 28; Hart, ECNE, pp. 211-13; Sawyer, Burton, no. 31 ex MSS 1, 2; Hooke 1983, p. 95, bounds only.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 121-3 (no. 24).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, p. 123; Finberg, ECWM, no. 149 and p. 237, authentic; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions are consistent; Hart, ECNE, no. 93 and pp. 213-18, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xxxiii-iv, p. 60, probably authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 123, on circumstances of production, p. 263, authentic; Hooke 1983, pp. 93, 95-7, 98, on bounds; PN Staffs., i. 8.
A.D. 1009. King Æthelred to Athelney Abbey; grant of 3 perticae at Hamp, near Bridgewater, Somerset. Latin.
Archive: Athelney
MS: Oxford, Dr D. Rogers, pp. 91-4 (s. xviii)
Printed: K 1306.
Translated: Bates, Athelney Register, pp. 146-7.
Comments: Bates, Athelney Register, pp. 146-7; Barker 1949, p. 73, may be genuine; Whitelock 1959, p. 82, cited; Finberg, ECW, no. 526, authentic, a note in the cartulary identifies the land with that in S 652; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 125 n. 135, p. 263, authentic; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 271 n. 228, cited.
A.D. 1009. King Æthelred to Morcar, his minister; grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Weston upon Trent, 1 at Marley, 1 at Smalley and Kidsley, 1 at Crich, and 1 at Ingleby, Derbys. Latin with English bounds of Weston.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/5/41 (s. xi1; BA Facs., no. 17)
2. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 182v = p. 364 (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 219-22; Sawyer, Burton, no. 32.
Comments: PN Derbys., ii. 512-13, on bounds; Whitelock 1959, p. 87, cited; Hart 1970/1, p. 24, on endorsement; Hart, ECNE, no. 110 and pp. 222-8, authentic, MS 1 original; Sawyer, Burton, pp. 63-4, authentic, MS 1 contemporary; Keynes 1980, pp. 114, 123, p. 135 n. 171, p. 264, original; Keynes 1980/1, pp. 216-17, on witness-list; BA Facs., p. 6, MS 1 apparently contemporary; Dumville 1993, pp. 134-5, on script.
A.D. 1011. King Æthelred to Elemod, his minister; grant of 2 hides (cassatae) at Hallam, Derbys., in return for 21 pounds of gold. Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 182v-183r = pp. 364-5 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Barlow 1970, pp. 328-9; Hart, ECNE, pp. 228-30; Sawyer, Burton, no. 33.
Comments: Barlow 1970, pp. 29-30 n. 5, on witness-list, p. 328, no obvious anachronisms and witness-list sound; Hart, ECNE, no. 112 and pp. 230-1, 'garbled and incomplete text of authentic charter, compiled in some provincial scriptorium, probably Burton'; Keynes 1978, pp. 166, 169, on chrismon; Sawyer, Burton, p. 65, probably abbreviated; Keynes 1980, pp. 114-5, pp. 264-5, authentic; Wormald 1988, no. 73.
A.D. 1011. King Æthelred to Morcar, his minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Ufre (? Mickleover, Derbys.). Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 183rv = pp. 365-6 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 232-3; Sawyer, Burton, no. 34.
Comments: Hart, ECNE, no. 111 and pp. 233-4, probably authentic; Sawyer, Burton, p. 67, probably authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 123, on formulation of witness-list, p. 265, apparently authentic; Keynes 1980/1, p. 216, on a formula.
A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Ælfgifu, his wife; grant of a predium in Winchester, with a church dedicated to St Peter, built by Æthelwine, præfectus. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 115r (s. xii)
Printed: K 720.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 702 and n. 61, a late and clumsy forgery; Goodman 1923, pp. 2, 3, 50-61; Harmer, Writs, p. 383; Finberg, ECW, no. 150, authentic; Hart 1970/1, p. 37 (no. 204), authentic; Biddle and Hill 1971, p. 75, on Winchester topography; Biddle et al. 1976, pp. 37-8 n., p. 46 n., with map p. 342; Keynes 1980, p. 125 n. 135, 265-6, authenticity uncertain, exemption from the common burdens is suspicious but a diploma in favour of the queen may have some unusual features; Keynes 1996, p. 34, anomalous features, but formulation is early 11th century and charter should probably be given benefit of doubt.
A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Godwine, bishop of Rochester; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Fen Stanton and Hilton, Hunts., previously fofeited by Æthelflæd for helping her exiles brother, Ealdorman Leofsige Latin.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 159v-161v (s. xii1; facsimile)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), 6v-7r (s xiv)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 135-8; K 719 ex Hearne; Thorpe, pp. 299-300, part only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 79; Campbell, Rochester, no. 33.
Translated: Stenton 1955, pp. 79-80, narrative section only.
Comments: Stenton 1955, pp. 79-80; Hart, ECEE, no. 30, authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 42, authentic; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent, probably authentic; Campbell, Rochester, p. xvii, on bounds, p. xxvi-vii, typical of Æthelred's charters; Keynes 1978, pp. 166, 169, on chrismon; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 115, 130 n. 158, p. 265, apparently authentic; Wormald 1988, nos 71, 75; Keynes 1991, pp. 79-80, on background; cf. S 1562.
A.D. 1012 or 1013 (June or July). King Æthelred to Leofric, his faithful minister; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Whitchurch, Oxon., forfeited by a different Leofric Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 103v-104r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 116rv (s. xiii; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 134rv (s. xii; no bounds)
Printed: K 1307; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 422-5, 479-80; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 46; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 136.
Comments: Grundy, Oxon., pp. 73-5, bounds describe modern parish of Whitchurch; Robertson, Charters, p. 382, on Leofric; PN Oxon., i. 45, 62, 64; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions are consistent, except perhaps for Bishop Lyfing; Gelling, ECTV, no. 292, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 115 n. 106, p. 130 n. 158, p. 201 n. 178, p. 265, spurious, witness-list not compatible with others of the period; Wormald 1988, no. 76; Blair 1994, pp. 78, 102; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 136, authenticity uncertain, the problems of the witness-list are not insuperable and there are no other suspicious features.
A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Morcar, his minister; grant of 2 hides (mansae) at Ecgintune (probably Eckington, Derbys.). Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 184r = p. 367 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 244-5; Sawyer, Burton, no. 37.
Comments: PN Derbys., p. 459, identifies as Egginton, near Burton; Hart, ECNE, no. 113 and pp. 245-7, probably authentic, modelled on charter of King Athelstan, refers to Eckington; Dumville 1979, p. 8, document extensively modelled on charter of Athelstan's reign; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xxvi-vii, probably refers to Eckington, p. 72, dependence on earlier formulas is so great that charter must be spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 77, p. 125 n. 135, 266, authenticity uncertain; Keynes 1980/1, p. 217, draftsman's imitation of earlier formulas need not condemn the text.
A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Theodulf, his man; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Burtune (? Burton Hastings, Warwicks.). Latin.
Archive: Burton
MS: Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 183v-184r = pp. 366-7 (s. xiii med.)
Printed: Hart, ECNE, pp. 241-2; Sawyer, Burton, no. 36.
Comments: Hart, ECNE, pp. 242-4, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xxxiii, 71, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 52, p. 115 n. 106, p. 125 n. 135, on formulation, p. 265, authentic.
A.D. 1012. King Æthelred to Wulfgeat, abbot; grant of 1.5 hides (manses) at Wetmoor, Staffs., in return for 70 pounds of gold and silver. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Burton
MSS: 1. Aberystwyth, N.L.W., Peniarth 390, 183v = p. 366 (s. xiii med.)
2. BL MS Loans 30 (Marquess of Anglesey), 10v-11r (s. xiii1)
Printed: Shaw, Staffs., i. 19-20; Hart, ECNE, pp. 235-7; Sawyer, Burton, no. 35; Hooke 1983, pp. 97, 99, bounds only.
Translated: Bridgeman 1916, pp. 124-5 (no. 25).
Comments: Bridgeman 1916, p. 125; HRH, p. 237, subscriptions mostly consistent but last two bishops impossible and perhaps added; Hart, ECNE. no. 94 and pp. 237-41, spurious, based on S 920; Sawyer, Burton, p. 69, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 88 n. 20, p. 108 nn. 69 and 72, p. 123 n. 128, p. 266, Burton forgery modelled on S 920; Hooke 1983, p. 57 n. 141, on place-name element, pp. 97, 99-101, on bounds.
A.D. 1013. King Æthelred to Northman, miles; grant of 3.5 hides (cassati) at Twywell, Northants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Thorney
MSS: 1. Cambridge, U.L., Add. 3020, 15rv (s. xiv)
2. BL Add. 5937, 180r (s. xvi; abbreviated; ex 1)
Printed: M 1837, p. 56, ex MS 2; K 1308 ex MS 2; Hart, ECEE, pp. 193-4 ex MS 1.
Comments: PN Northants., p. 188 n., on bounds; Whitelock 1959, p. 82, on beneficiary; Hart, ECEE, pp. 194-8, authentic; Whitelock 1969, pp. 113-14, must have been modelled on an earlier charter, corrects a reading in Hart's edition; Barlow 1970, p. 30 n. 1, obviously manufactured, witness-list cannot be later than 1012; Hart 1970, p. 34, on hidage; HRH, p. 235, subscriptions difficult, but probably a genuine base; Hart, ECNE, no. 15, authentic; Sawyer, Burton, p. xlvii n. 1, probably spurious, although based on an authentic alliterative charter; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 373 n., 378, either spurious or modelled on a much older charter; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, pp. 124-5, 266, authentic, may have been drawn up by diocesan bishop; Hart 1992, p. 435, authentic charter, drawn up locally, using formulas from a lost 'alliterative' charter.
A.D. 1013 (18 April). King Æthelred to Sigered; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Hatfield, Essex. Latin.
Archive: Barking
MS: Hatfield House, Ilford Hospital 1/6, 17rv (s. xvi med.)
Printed: (unprinted).
Comments: Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 7, the subscription of the bishop of London to 931b indicates that he was responsible for the drafting of that charter, of S 931a and of a lost charter referring to Tottenham, Middx.. Both S 931a and 931b stand out from the diplomatic norm.
A.D. 1013 (20 April). King Æthelred to Sigered, his minister; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at (East or West) Horndon, Essex. Latin.
Archive: Barking
MS: Hatfield House, Ilford Hospital 1/6, 16v-17r (s. xvi med.)
Printed: (unprinted).
Comments: Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 7, the subscription of the bishop of London to 931b indicates that he was responsible for the drafting of that charter, of S 931a and of a lost charter referring to Tottenham, Middx.. Both S 931a and 931b stand out from the diplomatic norm.
A.D. 1014. King Æthelred to Leofwine, dux; grant of 4 hides (mansae) at Mathon, Herefords. Latin.
Archive: Pershore
MSS: 1. PRO E. 315/61, 57v (s. xiv)
2. BL Add. 4509, 97r-98r (s. xviii; ex 1)
Printed: Finberg, ECWM, pp. 143-4 (no. 419), with translation, pp. 144-5.
Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 419, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 65 n. 120, p. 266, authentic.
Note. The cartulary text states that the bounds were to be found in carta Ælredi (perhaps a reference to the original of S 932).
A.D. 1014. King Æthelred to Sherborne Abbey; grant of 13 or 16 hides (mansiunculae) at Corscombe, Dorset. The estate had belonged to Sherborne in Edgar's reign, been leased out for two lives and then sold to Ealdorman Eadric, and later bought back by Wulfgar, famulus of Sherborne. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Sherborne
MS: BL Add. 46487, 4v-6r (s. xii med.)
Printed: Hearne, Collections, pp. 444-5; K 1309; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 48; O'Donovan, Sherborne, no. 15.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset 1935, pp. 130-5, bounds describe modern parish of Corscombe, excluding Benville and Tollor Whelme; Finberg, ECW, no. 617, authentic; Barlow 1970, p. 30 n. 1, doubtful and irregular; HRH, p. 235, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 89 n. 23, pp. 97, 115, 267, authenticity uncertain, cf. links with S 969; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. xxviii-ix, xxxv-vi, 53-4, may be authentic; Lawson 1993, p. 239, on formulation; Barnard 1994, esp. pp. 1-5, on bounds.
A.D. 1014. See Abb. 3 (S 1602c). King Æthelred to Sealwyne (? Sæwine), his thegn; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Rodden, near Abbotsbury, Dorset.
A.D. 1015. King Æthelred to Brihtwold, bishop; grant of 5 hides (mansiunculae) at Chilton, Berks., forfeited by Wulfgeat, minister. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS; 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 66r (s. xiii; bounds of woodland only)
2. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 104r-105r (s. xiii; no bounds)
3. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 201v-202r (s. xii; bounds only)
Printed: K 1255 ex MS 1; K 1310 ex MS 2; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 266 ex MS 1, pp. 425-8 ex MS 2; B 1170 ex MS 1; Earle, p. 393, bounds only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 5, no. 22, ex MS 1, no. 48 ex MS 2; PN Berks., iii. 767, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 137.
Comments: Grundy, Berks. 1924, pp. 64-7, on bounds; PN Berks., ii. 442-3, 497, iii. 752, 767-8, bounds describe modern parish of Chilton and woodland at West Ilsley; Gelling, ECTV, no. 128, authentic; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 115, 267, authentic; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 50 n. 1, problem with witness-list; Wormald 1988, no. 72; Keynes 1991, pp. 80-1 n. 90, on Wulfgeat; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 137, authentic.
Note. The bounds of woodland attached to Chilton (MS 1) were copied separately in error (previously listed as S 1541); the compiler of the Abingdon Chronicle apparently thought that they referred to Lege (Bessels Leigh).
A.D. 1016. King Æthelred to Evesham Abbey; restitution of 1 hide (mansa) at Maugersbury, Gloucs., seized by Wulfric Ripa. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Evesham
MS: BL Harley 3763, 64v (s. xii)
Printed: K 723.
Comments: Plummer 1899, pp. 218-19, spurious; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 166-9, estate represents only part of te modern parish of Maugersbury; Whitelock 1943, p. 123, on a witness; PN Gloucs., i. 14, 17, 223-4, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 150, authentic basis, problems with witness-list, discusses bounds; Keynes 1980, pp. 97, 267-8, spurious in received form, elements of witness-list not compatible with date; Fleming 1985, p. 252; Dumville 1992, pp. 41-2 n. 58, spurious.
Note. Future usurpers of the estate are threatened with Wulfric's fate - his corpse was exhumed from Glastonbury and flung into the marsh called Fearningamere.
A.D. 1028. King Æthelred to Godwine, his miles; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Lytlacotan. Latin.
Archive: Thorney
MS: Cambridge, U.L., Add. 3020, 33v-34r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hart, ECEE, pp. 206-7.
Comments: Hart, ECEE, pp. 207-9, treats this as spurious version of S 983; Keynes 1980, p. 268 n. 72, spurious.
A.D. 990 x 1006, perhaps 999. King Æthelred to St Mary's, Abingdon; grant of land at Farnborough and Wormleighton, Warwicks., and South Cerney, Gloucs. [seized by Ælfric, dux, from a widow, Eadflæd, forfeited by him and restored to Eadflæd, and bequeathed by Eadflæd to King Æthelred]; and at Pyrian (? Wood- or Waterperry, Oxon.) [given to King Æthelred by Æthelweard, son of Ceolflæd], in compensation for the loss of land at Hurstbourne, Hants., and at Bedwyn and Burbage, Wilts. [granted to Abingdon by King Edgar and confiscated by King Edward the Martyr]. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 89v-90v (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 125v-126v (s. xii)
Printed: K 1312; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 367-70; Thorpe, pp. 282-5; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 129.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 123 (pp. 582-4).
Comments: Maitland 1897, pp. 254-5; Darlington 1955, p. 97; Finberg, ECW, no. 147, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 142, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 552, cited; Hart, ECNE, no. 67, authentic, Farnborough mistakenly identified as Farnborough, Berks.; Biddle et al. 1976, p. 457; Dumville 1979, p. 5, cited; Gelling, ECTV, no. 287, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 582, probably authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 96 n. 42, pp. 111, 256, authenticity uncertain, anomalous but no conclusive objection; Wormald 1988, nos 63-4; Dumville 1992, p. 109, on estate history; Kennedy 1995, p. 183 n. 197, on legal background; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 129, probably authentic.
King Æthelred to Atsere, his faithful minister; grant of land at Wyke Regis, Dorset. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MSS: 1. BL Add. 4525, p. 97 (s. xviii)
2. BL Add. 15350, 119r (s. xiv1)
3. Wilts. R.O., 2667
Printed: K 1284; Barrett 1905, p. 345.
Comments: Grundy, Dorset 1939, pp. 66-8, bounds not determinable but may describe Wyke Regis, Weymouth and Melcombe Regis; Finberg, ECW, no. 612, authentic basis; Hart 1970/1, p. 38 (no. 218), authentic basis; Keynes 1980, p. 84 nn. 3 and 4, p. 268, spurious, witnesses incompatible; PN Dorset, i. 217, 232, 267, 272.
A.D. 995 x 999 (Cookham). King Æthelred confirms the will of Æthelric (i.e. S 1501), including the bequest of land at Bocking, Essex, to Christ Church, Canterbury. English.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. B. 1 (Red Book, no. 18; s. x/xi; OS Facs., i. 17)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 142r (s. xiii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. E, 43r (s. xiii)
4. BL Stowe 853, 28v-29v (s. xvii)
Printed: K 704; Thorpe, pp. 539-41, with translation; Essays, Appendix, no. 26, in part, with translation; Earle, pp. 217-18; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 44-6 (no. 16/2), with translation, pp. 45-7.
Translated: Whitelock,EHD, no. 121 (pp. 579-80).
Comments: Plummer 1899, p. 177, dates it 997 x 1001; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 148-51; Hart, ECE, no. 29, original; HRH, p. 236, genuine, subscriptions few but consistent; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 579-80, MS 1 contemporary, discusses background; Keynes 1980, pp. 129-30, 148, 161-2, 208 n. 198, p. 222 n. 244; Keynes 1988, p. 190; Wormald 1988, no. 62; Ramsey and Sparks 1992, p. 311, cited; Lawson 1993, pp. 22-3, 241; Stafford 1994, pp. 234, 238; cf. S 1501.
Note. Central portion of a tripartite chirograph (one portion kept at Christ Church, one in the king's haligdom and the third retained by Æthelric's widow).
A.D. 1006 x 1011. King Æthered to St Peter's Abbey, Chertsey; grant of privileges at a wharf near Fischuthe in London bequeathed to Chertsey Abbey by Wulfstan, the king's priest. Latin.
Archive: Chertsey
MS: BL Cotton Vitell. A. xiii, 30v-31v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 718.
Comments: Stevenson 1904, p. 220 n. 7, dubious; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 368, doubtful; Gelling, ECTV, no. 233, may be genuine with minor interpolations; Keynes 1980, p. 97 n. 43, p. 125 n. 135, p. 262, spurious in received form; Dyson and Schofield 1984, p. 293, cited.
King Æthelred to St Paul's; confirmation of lands. Latin.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MSS: 1. London, Guildhall, 25501, 39r (s. xiii)
2. London, Guildhall, 25504, 7v-8r (s. xii)
3. London, St Paul's, D. & C., Liber B (s. xii; lost)
Printed: Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 188 ex MSS 1, 3; Mon. Angl.., iii. 303; Dugdale, St Paul's (2nd edn), Appendix, p. 12; K 1311.
Comments: Gelling, ECTV, no. 230, spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 268, spurious.
[A.D. 990.] King Æthelred to the church of St Peter and All Saints, South Stoneham, Hants.; grant of 10 hides (mansae) at Hinton Ampner, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 84v-85r (s. xii)
Printed: K 712.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1926, pp. 139-42, on bounds; Forsberg 1950, p. 216, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 139, authentic, dates 990 x 992; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 147), authentic; HRH, p. 232, dates 990 x 991, subscriptions are consistent, no grounds for suspicion; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, dates to 990; Keynes 1980, pp. 249-50, authenticity uncertain, fixes date.
A.D. 1006 x 1011. King Æthelred to Toti, a Dane; grant of 1 hide (mansus) at Beckley and 5 at Horton, Oxon., in return for a pound of silver. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Thorney
MS: Cambridge, U.L., Add. 3020, 16r (s. xiv)
Printed: PN Oxon., i. xxv (text in part, with translation) and 484 (bounds); Hart, ECEE, pp. 190-1.
Comments: PN Oxon., i. xxiv-xxv, 13, 14, 16, 179, 208; Hart, ECEE, pp. 191-3, no suspicious features, probably authentic; Whitelock 1969, p. 114, corrects a reading; Stenton 1971, p. 381 n. 2; Hart, ECNE, p. 92 n. 1, on notification clause; Gelling, ECTV, no. 291, authentic, bounds probably describe the two modern parishes of Beckley and Stowood, and Horton cum Studley; Keynes 1980, pp. 112, 113-14, 202 n. 182, pp. 261-2, authentic; Lawson 1984, p. 725, cited; Keynes 1994, p. 1140 n. 1, on formulation.
[A.D. 990.] King Æthelred to ?; grant of 8 hides (mansae) at Weston in South Stoneham, Hants. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 85rv (s. xii)
Printed: K 713.
Comments: Grundy, Hants. 1927, pp. 248-9, identifies Stanham as North Stoneham; Forsberg 1950, pp. 216-17, on bounds, identifies Stanham as South Stoneham; Burgess 1964; Finberg, ECW, no. 140, authentic, has same witnesses as S 942; Hart 1970/1, p. 33 (no. 148), authentic; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, dates to 990; Keynes 1980, p. 250, spurious; Currie 1995, pp. 111-15, 123, on bounds and estate history; Russell 1996, on detail of bounds.
Note. The rubric states that the king gave the land to the bishopric for the Old Minster.
A.D. 978 x 1016. Writ of King Æthelred declaring that his priests in St Paul's minster are to have their sake and soke within borough and without, and as good laws as ever they had in the days of any king or bishop. English.
Archive: London, St Paul's
MS: Bodleian, James 23, p. 32 (s. xvii)
Printed: Gibbs 1939, p. 2; Harmer, Writs, no. 52.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 235-7, 468, authenticity uncertain; Barraclough 1954, p. 197 and n. 23, genuine; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 171, dubious but no decisive argument against authenticity, may be abbreviated version of a writ of S 1104 (= 1973, p. 56); Gelling, ECTV, no. 234, probably spurious.
A.D. 984 x 1001. Writ of King Æthelred declaring that the land at Chilcomb, Hants., is now to be assessed for the discharge of all the obligations upon it at 1 hide, as had been established by his ancestors. English.
Archive: Winchester, Old Minster
MS: BL Add. 15350, 6r (s. xii)
Printed: K 642; Harmer, Writs, no. 107.
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 373-80, 523-4, authenticity doubtful; Barraclough 1954, p. 197 and n. 23, p. 203, probably spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 141 and pp. 230-2, authentic; John 1965, pp. 425-6; Chaplais 1966/1, p. 171, probably forged in second quarter of 11th century (= 1973, pp. 55-6); Hart 1970/1, p. 24 (no. 1), authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 143 n. 209, dubious.
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