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A.D. 946. (Kingston-on-Thames, Surrey) King Eadred to Wulfric; grant of 7 hides (manentes) at Warkton, Northants. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost Somers charter 11

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 86; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302 (no. 11), incomplete, ex MS; K, 411; Smith, Bede, p. 772, ex MS; B, 815

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 105 (pp. 551-2)

Comments:

Hart, ECNE, no. 3, authentic; BA Facs., p. 12; Nelson 1977, pp. 66 n. 99, 69 n. 115 (= 1986, pp. 299 n. 99, 302 n. 115), on attestation of reguli; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Nelson 1999a, p. 102, on royal election by nobles; Keynes 1985, pp. 156-9, on 'alliterative' charters; Wanley, Catalogus, p. 302, MS of unusual type with crosses of differing form; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, 551, on 'alliterative' charters; authentic; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 376, Example of a charter that used the "alliterative" style, similar to S 479, p. 383, Charter that parallels S 473 in lexical choices; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on 'alliterative' charters; Hart 1972, on charter-type; Sawyer, Burton, pp. xlvii-viii, on 'alliterative' charters, of which this is one