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A.D. 940 (Chippenham, Wilts.). King Edmund to Wulfric; grant of 30 hides (mansiunculae) at Langley, Wilts. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, ff. 204v-205r(s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 238r(s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 85(see Abrams 1996, p. 33)

Printed:

Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 60 (no. 131); Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 380-382, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; K, 382 and vol. vi. 229, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 660-1 (no. 1219), ex MS 1; B, 751, ex MS 2

Comments:

Brooks 1992, p. 8, on beneficiary; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 33, 39, 149-51, on MS sources; on estate; Jackson 1858, pp. 37, 47-8; Keynes 1980, p. 82 n. 165, on 'alliterative' charters; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Hart 1972, pp. 128-31, on charter-type; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 196, Description of charter contents, labelled 30, p. 382-387, Discussion of charter as an example of the "alliterative" style of charters popular in the 940s and 950s, the difficulty of the Latin employed, and the bounds of the property granted by it; Forsberg 1950, p. 204, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 250, authentic; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 253-5, bounds may describe Langley Burrell, but are difficult to locate; Sawyer 1983, p. 292, on meeting-place; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 372-3, on 'alliterative' charters; Hart 1992, pp. 431-45, on charter-type; Wilson and Tucker 1982, on bounds

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