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S 1703

A.D. 871 x 879. Tunbeorht, bishop (of Winchester), to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of land at Logderesdone (Montacute, Somerset).

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Glastonbury

Comments:

Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 42, Proof of the continued existence of Glastonbury Abbey during the fraught years of the Great Army's incursion into Wessex from Bishop Tunberht's granting of land to the abbey between 871-877, p. 91, Charter referencing the Norman name "Montacute" found within the Liber Terrarum, possibly indicating a post-Conquest date of creation for the cartulary, but also possibly a later addition to a pre-existing charter, p. 537, Charter mentioned in the index of the Liber Terrarum that is no longer present in the archive of Glastonbury Abbey; Foot 1991, p. 178, on abbot Tunbert/Hunbeorht