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A.D. 951 for ? 959 (Glastonbury). King Edgar to the church of St Peter, Westminster; restoration of 5 hides (mansiunculae) on the north side of the river Thames between the Tyburn and the Fleet, Middx, in return for 120 solidi of gold in an armlet. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Westminster

MSS:

1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. V(s. x ex.; OS Facs., ii., Westminster 4)
2. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. Muniment Book 11, f. 75v(s. xvi; incomplete)

Printed:

Robinson 1911, p. 170, bounds only, ex MS 1.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 291 (no. 2); K, 569, ex Widmore, with date 971; B, 1048; Widmore 1743, Appendix, iv

Comments:

PN Middx, pp. 6-7, 113, 168, 173, and p. 222, on bounds; Stevenson 1912, p. 8, MS 1 not in contemporary hand; BA Facs., p. 10, written in second half of 10th century, conceivably 'original', cf. S 1351; Robinson 1909, p. 12, apparently genuine, original or very early copy, should be dated 959; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 19, Spurious charter from Westminister claiming that King Offa of Mercia patronized this community, p. 32, Grant from Edgar to Westminster expanding its holdings closer to the walls of London, p. 119, Document claiming that St. Dunstan refounded Westminster while bishop of London; Thompson 2006, pp. 21 et passim, on script; Brooks 1992, p. 22 n. 72, contemporary single sheet, tampered with to make it appear that the charter had once been sealed; Whitelock 1975, p. 22 n., no basis for dating 971; Keynes 1980, p. 48 nn. 89 & 90, 'Dunstan B' type, unlikely to be authentic in present form; Keynes 2005a, pp. 56-7, impossible date, but evidence of Dunstan's involvement in Westminster's refoundation; formulation related to Dunstan's Glastonbury; Crick 2002, pp. 76-79, includes plate; Napier and Stevenson, p. 90 and n. 1, early 11th-century hand, reads like a genuine charter, wrongly dated 951, probably 971; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 122, Likely spurious charter that uses the "Dunstan B" model but purports to be from the reign of King Edgar, possibly based in part on an authentic charter, p. 173, Charter likely from 958-9 possibly suggesting that Dunstan regained his status as abbot of Glastonbury upon his return from exile on the Continent; Dumville 1994, p. 146 n. 71, non-contemporary Square Minuscule, not s. x med; Robinson 1911, p. 170; Keynes 1994, p. 177, spurious in received form, but perhaps based in part on a 'Dunstan B' charter; Gelling, ECTV, no. 225, authentic, note on bounds; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie, but not original (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Harvey 1977, p. 355; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 369, probably authentic; Gelling 1954, on bounds, with map