Charters of the Shaftesbury Abbey, ed. S. E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters 5 (Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 1996).

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1. (S 1164, S 1256) a. Cenred grants thirty hides by Fontmell Brook, Dorset, to Bectun, abbot. [A.D. 670 x 676]
b. Cyneheard, bishop [of Winchester] describes the settlement of a dispute over the land in favour of Abbot Ecgwald and his familia at Tisbury minster, Wiltshire. A.D. 759
2. (S 277) Ecgberht, king of the West Saxons, confirms the possession by three sisters, Beornwyn, Ælfflæd and Walenburch, of ten hides at Woolland, Dorset. A.D. 833
3. (S 326) Æthelbald, king of the West Saxons, grants fourteen hides at Teffont, Wiltshire, to Osmund, minister. A.D. 860
4. (S 329) Æthelberht, king of the West [Saxons], grants three hides at Dinton, Wiltshire, to Osmund, minister. A.D. 860
5. (S 334) Æthelred, king of the Saxons, grants two hides at Cheselbourne, Dorset, to Ælfstan, princeps. A.D. 859 [for 867/8 x 871, ? 869 or 870]
6. (S 342) Æthelred, king of the West Saxons, grants five hides at Cheselbourne, Dorset, to Ealdorman Ælfstan. [A.D. 867/8 x 871, ? 869 or 870]
7. (S 357) Alfred, king, grants forty hides at Donhead, Wiltshire, and Compton Abbas, Dorset; twenty at Sixpenny Handley and Gussage St Andrew, Dorset; ten at Tarrant Hinton, Dorset; fifteen at Iwerne Minster, Dorset; and fifteen at Fontmell, Dorset, with various privileges, to Shaftesbury Abbey. [A.D. 871 x 877]
8. (S 419) King Æthelstan grants eleven and a half hides at Fontmell Magna, Dorset, to the familia at Shaftesbury. A.D. 932
9. (S 429) King Æthelstan grants twelve hides at Tarrant Hinton, Dorset, to the nuns of Shaftesbury. A.D. 935
10. (S 445) a. King Æthelstan grants five hides at West Orchard, Dorset, to Ælfric (? Ælfred), bishop. A.D. 939
b. Ælfred, bishop, [? of Sherborne], grants the land to Beorhtwyn, daughter of Wulfhelm.
11. (S 459) King Eadmund grants ten hides at Liddington, Wiltshire, to Adulf (Eadwulf), his man. A.D. 940
12. (S 478) King Eadmund grants two hides at Beechingstoke, Wiltshire, to Eadric, his uassallus. A.D. 941
13. (S 485) King Eadmund restores and confirms seven hides at Cheselbourne, Dorset, to Wynflæd, a nun, and grants her a further eight hides in the same place. A.D. 942. With a vernacular note concerning land at Winterbourne Tomson, Dorset.
14. (S 490) King Eadmund grants eleven hides at Mapperton on Almer, Dorset, to Eadric, comes. A.D. 943
15. (S 502) King Eadmund grants five hides at Hinton St Mary, Dorset, to Wulfgar, minister. A.D. 944
16. (S 534) King Eadred grants eight hides in the Isle of Purbeck, Dorset, to Ælfthryth, a religious woman. A.D. 948
17. (S 562) King Eadred grants thirty hides at Felpham, Sussex, to Eadgifu, his mother. A.D. 953
18. (S 570) King Eadred grants five hides at Henstridge, Somerset, to Brihtric, minister. A.D. 956 [? for 953 x 955]
19. (S 632) King Eadwig grants seven hides at Corfe and Blashenwell, Dorset, to Wihtsige, minister. A.D. 956
20. (S 573) King Eadred grants sixteen hides at Corfe and Blashenwell, Dorset, to Wihtsige, minister. A.D. 956
21. (S 630) King Eadwig grants eighty or ninety hides to the minster at Shaftesbury. A.D. 956. With the bounds of Donhead and Easton Basset in Wiltshire, and Compton Abbas, Sixpenny Handley and Iwerne Minster in Dorset.
22. (S 655) King Eadwig grants land at Shaftesbury, Dorset, to Wulfgar Leofa. A.D. 958
23. (S 656) King Eadric (for Eadwig) grants three hides at Thornton in Marnhull and at Iwerne Courtney, Dorset, to Wulfgar, minister. A.D. 958
24. (S 710) King Edgar grants five hides at East Orchard, Dorset, to Ælfsige, minister. A.D. 963
25. (S 730) King Edgar grants five hides at Teffont, Wiltshire, to Sigestan, minister. A.D. 964
26. (S 744) King Edgar confirms ten hides at Uppidelen (Piddletrenthide), Dorset, to the church at Shaftesbury. A.D. 966
27. (S 762) King Edgar grants three iugera of farmland and twenty iugera of woodland at Ealderes cumbe to Brihtgifu. A.D. 968
28. (S 850) King Æthelred confirms Shaftesbury's possession of twenty hides at Tisbury, Wiltshire. A.D. 984
29. (S 899) King Æthelred grants the cenobium of Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire, and its appurtenant lands, to the nuns of Shaftesbury. A.D. 1001
30. (S 955) King Cnut grants sixteen hides at Cheselbourne, Dorset, to Agemund (Aghmundr), minister. A.D. 1019