A.D. 688 (19 Aug.). Cædwalla, king, to Aldhelm, abbot; grant of 140 hides (manentes) on both sides of the wood called Kemele (Kemble, Gloucs.), 30 on the east side of the wood of Braydon, Wilts., and 5 at the confluence of the rivers Avon and Wylye. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 10r-v (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/24, f. 123v (s. xiii ex.)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 5 (S.C. 8593), ff. 16v-17v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, f. 83r-v (s. xii)

Printed:

Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 11; K, 29, ex MS 1 and Wharton; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 352-3, ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 284-5, ex MS 2; B, 70, ex Brewer, Hamilton, K and MS 1

Comments:

Stenton 1918, p. 438, of ill repute (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 146-7; Darlington 1955, pp. 4, 90, spurious but with genuine elements; Watkin 1956, p. 211 and n. 21, dubious; Finberg, ECW, no. 185, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 4A, spurious; Edwards 1988, pp. 97-100, authenticity uncertain, may represent a conflation of S 231 with a charter of Centwine