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A.D. 964. King Edgar to Beorhtnoth, his comes; grant of 2 hides (mansiunculae) at Cookley in Wolverley, Worcs. Latin with English bounds

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Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130r(s. xvii; incomplete)
3. London, British Library, Harley 4660, f. 8v(s. xvii; ex 1)

Printed:

Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 139-40, ex MS 1; Hearne, Heming, p. 561, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 593 (no. 27), ex MS 3; B, 1134, ex MS 3 with variant readings of the bounds from BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 185v, appended to a copy (s. xi/xii) of a charter of King William I dated 1067; K, 1251

Printed and Translated:

Baines 1992, p. 32, ex Hickes and MS 3

Comments:

Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B'; Darlington 1955, p. 28; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, on 'Dunstan B' charters; Grundy, Worcs., II, pp. 108-10, on bounds; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 123, Charter following the "Dunstan B" model from the reign of King Edgar that suggests that this style was no longer solely used for diplomas related to St. Dunstan himself, p. 489, Charter in the "Dunstan B" style; Hart 1992, p. 132, on beneficiary; PN Berks., i. 133, on style of bishop of Ramsbury; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 139, MS 1 an apograph; Hooke 1990, pp. 169-74, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 288, authentic; Baines 1992, passim; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. p. 177