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Cenwalh, king of Wessex, to the church of SS Peter and Paul, Winchester (Old Minster); grant of 100 hides (mansae) at Downton, Wilts. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Winchester, Old Minster

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 15350, ff. 13v-14r(s. xii med.)

Printed:

B, 27; Hill 1910, pp. 51-2; K, 985

Translated:

Hill 1910, pp. 51-2, partial

Comments:

Hart 1970a, p. 25 (no. 25), spurious; Wormald 1988a, p. 39 n. 106; Stevenson 1898, p. 42, spurious, same invocation as S 729; Darlington 1955, p. 84, spurious; Edwards 1988, pp. 131-2, spurious, fabricated in 10th century, most of wording duplicatedin S 275, a purported confirmation of S 229; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 145-8, second part of boundary clause describes Bishopstone and Stratford Tory; Finberg, ECW, no. 195, spurious, witnesses from a Mercian charter of 793 x 796; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 212, Fabricated charter of King Cenwealh of Wessex, discussed in reference to S 227; Hill 1910, bounds include Downton, Nunton and Standlynch with detached portion at Bishopstone