A.D. 670 x 676. Cenred to Bectun, abbot; grant of 30 hides (manentes) by Fontmell Brook, Dorset. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Shaftesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 19v-20r (s. xv in.)

Printed:

K, 104; B, 107; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 47; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 1a

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 55 (pp. 480-2)

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438, 'no conclusive exception need be taken' (= Stenton 1970, p. 53); Stenton 1918a, pp. 258-9, authentic; Levison 1946, pp. 226-8, authentic; Darlington 1955, p. 25; Stenton 1955, p. 23, authentic; John 1960, pp. 9, 10, 67; Finberg, ECW, no. 551, authentic; Chaplais 1965, pp. 55-6, dubious (= 1973, pp. 36-7); Chaplais 1966, p. 26, on formulation (=1981, XV p. 26); Sims-Williams 1975, pp. 5-6, on wording of sanction; Cox 1976, p. 44, on place-name; Harrison 1976, p. 69, authentic, discusses formulation; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 480-1, some encouraging features and motive for forgery seems lacking; Meyer 1981, pp. 335-6 n. 3, on estate history; Scharer 1982, pp. 23 n. 3, 30 n. 46, 76 n. 36, 93 n. 47, 167 n. 38, 189 n. 139, on details of formulation, expresses reservations; Keen 1984, p. 213, suggests early Shaftesbury connection; Wormald 1985, pp. 25, 30 n. 32, broadly trustworthy; dates 676; Edwards 1988, pp. 229-34, authentic; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 112, may have been drafted by Bishop Leuthere or one of his circle; Murphy 1992, on estate history and topography; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 4-10, edited version of authentic text; Barker 1984, p. 36, on location of land, with diagram; Foot 2000, II. 167