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A.D. 778. Cynewulf, king of the Saxons, to Bica, comes and minister; grant of 13 hides (manentes) at Little Bedwyn, Wilts. Latin with bounds

Archive:

uncertain (possibly Bedwyn)

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 4(s. viii 2; BM Facs., ii. 3; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 194)

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 66; K, 133 and vol. iii. 383; B, 225

Comments:

Darlington 1955, p. 5; Kitson 1992a, pp. 13-14, on linguistic form in boundary clause; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 27-8, copy of s. viii/ix; Edwards 1988, pp. 59-62, citing T.J. Brown, 10th-century copy; apparently authentic; Dumville 1992, pp. 82-3, 109, 112, copy of early 10th century, discusses estate history; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 151-5, on bounds; Dumville 1987, p. 167, script is early-10th-century, possibly written at Bedwyn; Abrams 1996, p. 175 n. 68, on possible Glastonbury connections of beneficiary, cf. Gl **** (S 1682); Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 186, Reference to charter as containing similarities to S 941, suggesting that the latter was based in part on it; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 194, copy made at end of 8th or beginning of 9th century, iv, pp. xvi, xvii, opistograph; copy of s. viii or ix; Finberg, ECW, no. 194, original; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 230, Late 7th century charter that contains simple directional phrases, unlike the more details boundaries in S 237, p. 259, Charter from the period of King Ine's reign with similar features in its witness list to S 259, supporting the notion that the latter was based on authentic documents; Rogers 1981, pp. 265-6, on script and orthography; Stenton 1971, p. 307 n. 1, contemporary; Sweet, OET, p. 427 (no. 3); Stenton 1918, p. 443 n. 48, on witnesses (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 6); Whitelock, EHD, p. 497, contemporary; Stevenson 1914, p. 695 n. 34, cited; Keynes 1994b, p. 1110 n. 2, may be original; Crawford 1921, on bounds; PN Worcs., p. xxxix, on a reading