A.D. 663 for ? 693 (20 July). Ine, king of the (West) Saxons, to Hæmgils, abbot; grant of 10 hides (cassati) at Brent, Somerset. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, ff. 180v-181r (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 201r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 20 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 840; K, 71, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 94), ex MS 2; HS, pp 306-7, ex K and Mon. Angl; B, 121, ex K and MS 2; Earle, pp. 21-2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 28; Pierquin, Conciles, p. 217; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 527 (no. 979), ex MS 1

Comments:

HS, p. 307, doubtful; Davidson 1884, p. 8; Greswell 1901; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 149-51, on bounds; Turner 1950; Finberg, ECW, no. 364, authentic basis; Scott 1981, pp. 92, 198 n. 85; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Edwards 1988, pp. 23-5, 50, substantially genuine, on formulation; Costen 1992, p. 41, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 31, 35, 38, 57, 69-72, 118, on MS sources; on estate history