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A.D. 704 (Glastonbury). Ine, king, to the church of SS Mary and Patrick, Glastonbury; grant of freedom from secular burdens. Latin

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 58v(s. xiv med.)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, R.5.33 (724), ff. 1-19v, f. 8r-v (s. xiii)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. V, f. 56r-v(s. xv)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 67r(s. xiv)

Printed:

Warner 1826, Appendix, p. lii (o. 2), ex Mon. Angl; Mon. Angl., i. 12-13, ex MS 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 25 (no. 6); Hearne, Adam of Domerham, i. 51-2, ex MS 2; K, 51, ex MSS 3*, 4; Hearne, John of Glastonbury, i. 92-3, ex MS 3*; B, 109, ex K and MSS 2*, 3*; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 141-2 (no. 200), ex MS 1; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 239-240, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter

Printed and Translated:

Carley, Glast. Chron., pp. 92-3, ex MS 3; Scott 1981, pp. 92-5, in part

Comments:

O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. 2-3; Davidson 1884, pp. 8-9, spurious; Edwards 1988, p. 26, fabrication based on a copy of S 245; Abrams 1996, p. 28, on MS sources; Cox 1976, p. 33, on place-name; Liebermann 1913, p. 45, spurious; Finberg 1969, p. 73, spurious; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 144, Fraudulent charter granting privileges to Glastonbury Abbey in a similar way to those claimed in S 1786 for St Paul's; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 195, Description of charter contents, labelled 6, p. 240-241, Discussion of the charter as potentially authentic, although certainly with later changes, and the possibility of it being a 12th century forgery; Scott 1981, p. 198 n. 86; Watkin 1956, pp. 211-12 n. 34, may preserve traces of some genuine document; HS, p. 307, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 369, spurious, local adaptation of S 245; Warner 1826, Introduction pp. cii-civ