A.D. 705 or 706 (June). Ine, king of the Saxons, to Beorhtwald, abbot of Glastonbury; grant of 20 hides (cassati) on the river Sheppey (formerly Doulting), Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 155r (s. xiv med.)
2. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 161r (s. xiv med.; dated 702)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 171r (s. xiv)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 178v (s. xiv; dated 702)
5. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 9? (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 838, 839, ex MSS 3, 4; K, 49, ex MSS 3, 4; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 48 (no. 87); B, 112, ex K and MSS 3, 4; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 433 (no. 774), ex MS 1; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., p. 450 (no. 818), ex MS 2

Comments:

HS, p. 307, spurious; Davidson 1884, pp. 9, 20-3, spurious; on bounds; B, p. 165 n. 11, on date; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Robinson 1921, p. 31, not genuine in present form; PN Worcs., pp. 106-7, on bounds; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 79-86, bounds describe Pilton, Croscombe and the greater part of Shepton Mallett; Turner 1951; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii, p. clv (no. 818), bounds describe Pilton; Finberg, ECW, no. 370, authentic basis, apparently adapted from S 248; Edwards 1988, pp. 33-4, revised version of S 248; Abrams 1991, pp. 121-2, 127-9, 132-3, adaptation of S 248, perhaps fabricated in later 10th century; discusses bounds; Costen 1992, p. 40, on estate; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 35, 38, 96-7, 113-14, 184, 200-3, on MS sources; on estate history; bounds may be pre-Conquest; Costen 1991, p. 41; Costen 1991, p. 54, Pilton bounds later than date of grant, but show estate before it was split up; Foot 1991, p. 172, on abbot Beorwald