A.D. 682. Centwine, king of the (West) Saxons, to Hæmgils, abbot of Glastonbury; grant of 23 hides (mansiones) near Quantock Wood and 3 hides (cassati) at Crycbeorh (probably Creechbarrow Hill, near Taunton), Somerset. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, Muniments, 10586, pp. 128-129 (s. xvi in.)
2. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 8 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

Dickinson 1882, pp. 90-1, ex MS 1; B, 62, ex Dickinson 1882

Comments:

Davidson 1884, p. 7, no internal evidence of falsity; Stevenson 1904, p. lxxvii n. 1, spurious; Robinson 1921, p. 29 n. 5; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 51-4, bounds cover whole of West Monkton and western part of Creech St Michael; Grundy 1938, further notes on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 361, authentic basis; Finberg 1964, p. 99, cited; Finberg 1972, pp. 389-90, Crycbeorh is Creechbarrow; Scott 1981, pp. 90, 198 n. 82; Fleming 1985, pp. 252, 256, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 15-17, revised and interpolated version of apparently genuine early instrument, date 672 in B 62 is an error; Abrams 1991, p. 121, cited; Costen 1992, p. 41, on estate; Dumville 1992, p. 41 n. 56, cited; Abrams 1996, pp. 13-14, 31, 39, 80-3, 99-100, 231, on MS sources; charter may not originally have referred to West Monkton, bounds presumably a later addition; on Crycbeorh; on possible connection with S 248; Breeze 2000a, on place-name