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A.D. 704 x 709. Æthelheard and Æthelweard (rulers of the Hwicce) to Cuthswith; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Ingon, Warwicks., in return for 600 shillings. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 3v(s. xvii; ex 1)

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 23; K, 53; B, 122; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 170, ex 1, cf. pp. 168-9; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 585 (no. 5)

Comments:

Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 9-10; Hooke 1999, p. 17; Campbell 1989, p. 23, on sale of land; Cox 1976, p. 23, on place-name; Hart, ECNE, no. 43, authentic; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 71, Alleged charter from the Index Chartarum granting land directly to Glastonbury Abbey by King Aethelred II, p. 256, Early charter with parallels to S 1253 suggesting that the latter is authentic; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 138, Authentic charter with similar phrasing to S 1783, suggesting the use of authentic documents in the forging of the latter; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 141 n. 122, 191, genuine; Finberg, ECWM, p. 177 n., on beneficiary, cf. S 53; PN Warwicks., p. 233; Lapidge 1993, p. 293 n., probably genuine; Chaplais 1968, p. 328, proem is an adaptation of Paulinus of Nola (= 1973, p. 79); Turner 1916, p. xxxii, citing Stevenson, authentic