A.D. 675 (iuxta flumen Bladon, 26 Aug.). Leuthere, bishop of the Saxons, to Aldhelm, priest; grant of land at Malmesbury, Wilts., for a monastery. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, ff. 8r-9r (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, British Library, Royal 13 D II, ff. 9v-10r (s. xii)
3. London, Public Record Office, E 164/24, ff. 121v-122r (s. xiii ex.)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 23 (S.C. 3860), pp. 62-63 (s. xvii; incomplete)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 5 (S.C. 8593), ff. 11v-13v (s. xiii)
6. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, f. 82r (s. xii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 50-1; Alford 1663, ii. 348, in part; Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 9-10; K, 11, ex Wharton and MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 257 (no. 1), ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 257-8 (no. 5), ex MS 5; Giles, Opera Aldhelmi, pp. 341-2; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 347-9, ex MS 6; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 280-1, ex MS 3; Stubbs, William of Malmesbury, G.R., i. 30-1, ex MS 2; B, 37, ex Brewer, Hamilton, K, Mon. Angl., and MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 11; Ehwald, Aldhelmi Opera, pp. 507-9, ex Brewer, Hamilton, Stubbs and MS 1; Morris 1995, pp. 115-17, ex B

Translated:

Lapidge and Herren 1979, pp. 173-5

Comments:

HS, p. 124, spurious; Cook 1929; Watkin 1956, pp. 211 and n. 19, 230, citing Ehwald, authentic but interpolated; Finberg, ECW, no. 181, authentic basis; Lapidge and Herren 1979, pp. 173, 204; Wormald 1985, pp. 25, 29 n. 14, some authentic basis; Edwards 1988, pp. 85-7, fabrication, but sanction, dating clause and witness-list probably taken from authentic document; Barker 1984, p. 40, estate perhaps at Brokenborough and Bremilham; with map