A.D. 680. Cenfrith, comes Merciorum, to Aldhelm, abbot; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Wootton Bassett, Wilts. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, f. 82v (s. xii)

Printed:

Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 349-50; B, 54; Ehwald, Aldhelmi Opera, pp. 509-10

Translated:

Lapidge and Herren 1979, p. 175

Comments:

Stenton 1918, p. 438, 'of ill repute' (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); Darlington 1955, p. 3; Watkin 1956, p. 211 and n. 20, citing Ehwald, authentic basis but altered; John 1960, p. 69, spurious; Bullough 1972, p. 472 n. 39, on Latin vocabulary; Finberg, ECW, no. 182, authentic basis; Hart, ECNE, p. 383, spurious, formulas are those of Athelstan's charters; Lapidge and Herren 1979, p. 173; Edwards 1988, pp. 87-90, fabricated