Charters of the New Minster, Winchester, ed. Sean Miller, Anglo-Saxon Charters 9 (Oxford: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press, 2001).

CONTENTS

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1. (S 1507) Will of King Alfred. [First Part: A.D. 872 x 888; Second Part: ? 896 x 899]
2. (S 1443) King Edward acquires land in Winchester on which to build a church from Bishop Denewulf and the community at Winchester, in return for St Andrew's church; King Edward also acquires more land in Winchester. [A.D. 901]
3. (S 360) King Edward grants 100 hides at Micheldever, Hampshire, to the New Minster, Winchester. With bounds at Michelldever, Cranbourne, Curdridge, Durley, Slackstead (Rigeleah) and Candover, and a note of the land at Worthy (all in Hampshire). A.D. '900'
4. (S 365) King Edward grants fifteen hides at Abbotts Ann, Hampshire, to the New Minster, Winchester. A.D. 901
5. (S 366) King Edward grants fifty hides at Chisledon, Wiltshire, to the New Minster, Winchester. A.D. 901
6. (S 370) King Edward founds the New Minster, Winchester, and grants it 100 hides at Micheldever and nine hides at Stratton and four and a half hides at Burcot and eight and a half hides at Popham and ten hides at Woodmancott and ten hides at Candover and eight hides at Cranbourne and four hides at Drayton and three hides and one and a half virgates at Swarraton and six hides at Northington and three hides at Norton near Selborne and one and a half hides at Slackstead and Tatchbury and fifteen hides at Ann (all in Hampshire) and fifty hides at Collingbourne, Wiltshire, and forty hides at Chisledon, Wiltshire, and the land at Durley, Hampshire. A.D. '903'
7. (S 374) King Edward grants ten hides at Wonston, Hampshire, to St Peter's Minster, Winchester. A.D. 904
8. (S 379) King Edward grants ten hides at Collingbourne Kingston, Wiltshire, to Wulfgar, minister. A.D. '921'
9. (S 1417) The familia of the New Minster, Winchester, by permission of King Æthelstan, leases for three lives twenty hides at Chisledon, Wiltshire, to Alfred, minister. [A.D. 924 x 933]
10. (S 418) King Æthelstan grants twelve hides at North Stoneham, Hampshire, to Ælfred, minister. A.D. 932
11. (S 1509) Ælfred, thegn, wills the estate at North Stoneham to his wife for her lifetime and then to the New Minster, Winchester. [A.D. 932 x 939]
12. (S 470) King Eadmund grants thirty hides at Pewsey, Wiltshire, to St Peter's Minster, Winchester. A.D. 940
13. (S 505) King Eadmund grants a monastic dwelling near Basing, at the King's Horse Croft, two hides at Lickpit, with the appurtenant wood at Oakridge and pastures at Binfields and Middesellum (all in Hampshire) to Æthelnoth, his priest, after having purchased them for fifty gold solidi. A.D. 945
14. (S 1418) Æthelnoth, priest, grants all the land from 13 to the New Minster, Winchester. [A.D. 946 x 953]
15. (S 526) King Eadred leases ten hides at Leckford, Hampshire, to Eadwulf, priest, for life, with reversion to the Nunnaminster and the minster of his burial. A.D. 947
16. (S 1419) Eadwulf, priest, wills five hides at Leckford to the Nunnaminster and five hides to the New Minster, Winchester. [A.D. 947 x 955]
17. (S 1515) Will of King Eadred. [A.D. 951 x 955]
18. (S 1491) Will of Bishop Ælfsige. [A.D. 951 x 958]
19. (S 648) King Eadwig grants seven hides at South Heighton, Sussex, to the New Minster, Winchester. [A.D. 957]
20. (S 641) King Eadwig grants fifteen hides at Sotwell, Berkshire, to Æthelgeard, minister. A.D. 957
21. (S 1496) Æthelgeard wills the estate at Sotwell, Berkshire, to his wife for her life and then to the New Minster, Winchester. [A.D. 957 x c. 958]
22. (S 660) King Eadwig grants ten hides at Bighton, Hampshire, to the New Minster, Winchester, which leases it for life to Ælfric, minister. A.D. 959
23. (S 745) King Edgar refounds the New Minster, Winchester. A.D. 966
24. (S 746, S 1589) King Edgar grants five hides at Donnington, Sussex, twenty-eight hides at Southease, Sussex, ten hides at Telscombe, Sussex, two hides at Addeston (Winterburna) in Maddington, Wiltshire, to the New Minster, Winchester. A.D. 966
25. (S 1498) Will of Æthelmær ealdorman. [A.D. 977 x 982]
26. (S 842) King Æthelred confirms the bequest of Æthelmær dux of seven hides on the Isle of Wight (two at Heantun, two at Bathingbourne, two at Meolocdun, one at Stathe) and five hides at Portsea Island (at Fratton) and one at Segensworth and a hayfield between the river Meon and the Kingsmill watercourse to St Saviour's Minster. A.D. 982
27. (S 845) King Æthelred grants meadowland north of Winchester to Bishop Æthelgar. A.D. 983
28. (S 865) King Æthelred grants ten hides at Manningford Abbots, Wiltshire, to Æthelwold. A.D. 987
29. (S 1505) Will of Æthelwold. [after A.D. 987]
30. (S 869) King Æthelred confirms the grant of seven hides at South Heighton, Sussex, to Bishop Æthelgar. South Heighton was granted to Æthelgar by Ealdorman Ælfric, in exchange for some land of Æthelgar's near the river Lambourn, Berkshire. A.D. 988
31. (S 877) King Æthelred grants three and a half (or seven?) sulungs at Brabourne, three and a half sulungs at Evegate, two sulungs at Burhwara feld, three sulungs at Nackington, three sulungs at Chalk, and one sulung at Wirigenn (all in Kent) to Ælfthryth, his mother, in exchange for land at Cholsey, Berkshire. A.D. 996
32. (S 1420) Abbot Ælfsige and the community at the New Minster lease one hide at Barton Stacey, Hampshire, to Wulfmær and his wife, for their lifetimes, to revert to the New Minster afterwards together with one hide at Drayton, Hampshire. [A.D. 995 x 1006]
33. (S 956) King Cnut grants five hides at Drayton, Hampshire, to the New Minster. A.D. 1019
34. (S 1428) Letter of Eadwine, child-master at the New Minster, to bishop Ælfsige, describing an agreement between the Old and the New Minsters.