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S 1014

A.D. 1046. King Edward to Athelstan, his faithful minister; grant of 3 hides (cassati) at Ayston, Rutland. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 32r-33r(s. xii med.)
2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 128r-v(s. xiii med.)

Printed:

Kelly, Peterborough, p. 295-296, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 385 (no. 18); K, 784

Comments:

Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 16, on formulation; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 123, Description of charter contents, labelled 21, p. 296-298, Discussion of charter as genuine copy of 1046 diploma issued by King Edward, albeit with a likely abbreviated witness list, and the boundaries of Ayston; Cox 1989, p. 138, on bounds; Oleson 1955, p. 151, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 161, authentic, with discussion on bounds contributed by Finberg; Hart 1992, pp. 197-8, authentic, discusses estate history; PN Oxon., i. 216, on a personal name in bounds; HRH, p. 233, probably genuine, subscriptions are consistent; Stenton 1970, p. 294, on detail of bounds; Finberg 1972, pp. 453-4, on place-name

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    • + Regnante in perpetuum domino nostro Iesu Christo, qui imperio patris cuncta simul sancti spiritus gratia uiuificante disponit. Quamuis enim uerba sacerdotum et decreta iudicum in robore firmitatis iugiter perseuerent; attamen pro incerta futurorum muta