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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: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

Hearne, Heming, p. 561, ex MS 2; K, 1251; 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; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., pp. 139-40, ex MS 1

Printed and Translated:

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

Comments: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

Grundy, Worcs., II, pp. 108-10, on bounds; Darlington 1955, p. 28; Finberg, ECWM, no. 288, authentic; PN Berks., i. 133, on style of bishop of Ramsbury; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, discusses charter-type, which he terms 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, on 'Dunstan B' charters; Hooke 1990, pp. 169-74, on bounds; Baines 1992, passim; Hart 1992, p. 132, on beneficiary; Keynes 1994, on charter-type, esp. p. 177; 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; Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 139, MS 1 an apograph