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A.D. 681. Baldred, king, to Hæmgils, abbot, and the church of Our Lady and St Patrick, Glastonbury; grant of 12 (or 6) hides (manentes) at Pennard, Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, Muniments, 10564(s. x; OS Facs., ii, Marquess of Bath, 1)
2. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 168r-v(s. xiv med.)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 183r-v(s. xiv)
4. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 7(see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

K, 20 and vol. vi. 225; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 48-9 (no. 90); B, 61, ex K and MS 1; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 220-221, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; Earle, p. 426, bounds only; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 471 (no. 853), ex MS 2; Mon. Angl., ii. 839, ex MS 3

Comments:

Abrams 1996, pp. 11, 19 n. 56, 29, 31, 35, 38, 126, 195-8, on transmission of MS 1; on endorsement; on MS sources; MS 1 possibly 10th-century; on estate; Edwards 1988, pp. 11-15, may be reworking of genuine 7th-century charter but difficult to say how much text has been revised; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Robinson 1921, p. 30 n. 2, 10th century; Costen 1991, pp. 40-41, bounds later than grant; Costen 1992, p. 40, on estate; Stenton 1971, p. 67 and n. 2, somewhat questionable, hand of MS 1 may be 11th-century, but imitating and earlier exemplar; Finberg 1969, pp. 73-4, MS 1 pseudo-original, not evidence for Patrick's cult at Glastonbury in 7th century; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 75-7, bounds are those of West Pennard; Scott 1981, pp. 90, 198 n. 83; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 185, Reference to charter as containing similarities to S 941, suggesting that the latter was based in part on it; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 195, Description of charter contents, labelled 3, p. 221-226, Discussion of the charter as likely spurious, or at least based on several authentic charters merged into one, and the bounds of the properties granted within it; HS, p. 307, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 360, authentic basis; Rands 1992, on bounds