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A.D. 934 (Buckingham, 13 Sept.). King Athelstan to Æthelhelm, his faithful minister; grant of 15 hides (cassatae) at Kingtone (? Kington St Michael, Wilts.). Latin

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Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 203r (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 235r-v (s. xiv)

Printed: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

K, 365, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 59-60 (no. 130), ex MS 2; B, 704, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 650 (no. 1203), ex MS 1

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Jackson 1858, pp. 36-7; Darlington 1955, p. 96; Finberg, ECW, no. 238, authentic; Bullough 1972, p. 472 n. 39, on Latin vocabulary; Keynes 1980, p. 44 n. 78, on formulation; Sawyer 1983, p. 291, on meeting-place; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 35, 39, 149-51, 167, on MS sources, on estate, on beneficiary; Wormald, English Law, p. 440 n. 80, shortened witness-list; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 159, Example of a charter from 934 in the "Aethelstan A" style, likely one of the last documents produced by the scribe responsible for this dominant diplomatic form of the mid 10th century, p. 160, Document in which King Constantine of Scotland attests as a subregulus, as in S 1792; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 195, Description of charter contents, labelled 24, p. 351-352, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter, p. 352-354, Discussion of charter as a product of the scribe "Aethelstan A"; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 90, Example of a charter produced by "Aethelstan A"