A.D. 688 (August). Baldred to Aldhelm, abbot; grant of 100 hides (manentes) near the river Avon, round the wood called Stercanlei (cf. Startley Farm in Great Somerford, Wilts.) and at Cnebbanburg, in exchange for 100 hides (cassati) east of the wood called Braydon, Wilts. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, ff. 9v-10r (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/24, f. 123r (s. xiii ex.)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 5 (S.C. 8593), ff. 15v-16v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, f. 83v (s. xii)

Printed:

Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 11; K, 28, ex Wharton and MS 1; Brewer, Reg. Malm., p. 284, ex MS 2; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 353-4, ex MS 4; B, 71, ex Brewer, Hamilton, K and MS 1

Comments:

Stenton 1913, p. 17, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438, of ill repute (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); PN Wilts., p. 73; Darlington 1955, pp. 4, 90; Ekwall 1962, p. 15, associates Cnebbanburg with Nabal's farm in Sutton Benger; Finberg, ECW, no. 186, authentic; Cox 1976, pp. 17, 26-7, 31, 43, on place-names; Scharer 1982, p. 93 n. 47, dubious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 94-7, authentic