A.D. 685 (iuxta vadum Berlingford, ? Burford, Oxon., 30 July). Berhtwald, king or subregulus, to Aldhelm, abbot, for the monks of Malmesbury; grant of 40 hides (cassati) at Somerford Keynes, Gloucs. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 8r (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/24, f. 121v (s. xiii ex.)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 5 (S.C. 8593), ff. 10v-11v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, f. 83r (s. xii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 50; Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 10; K, 26, ex Wharton and MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 257 (no. 4); Giles, Opera Aldhelmi, col. 313; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 351-2; Brewer, Reg. Malm., p. 279, ex MS 3; B, 65, ex Brewer, Hamilton, K and MS 1

Comments:

Akerman 1857a, no. 6; HS, p. 169, questionable; Stenton 1918, p. 438 n. 26, of ill repute with some possibly authentic features (= Stenton 1970, pp. 52-3 n. 7); Darlington 1955, p. 90; Watkin 1956, p. 211 and n. 24; Finberg, ECW, no. 184, authentic; Chaplais 1965, p. 56 n. 70, on a formula (= 1973, p. 37 n. 70); Stenton 1971, pp. 69, 151, treats as authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 3, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 26, 35, on place-names; Sims-Williams 1976, pp. 13-14 n. 10; Scharer 1982, p. 93 n. 47, dubious; Wormald 1983, p. 112, on donor; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 93-4, authentic; Hart 1990, p. 7, cited