A.D. 801. Edbirtus (? Egbert), king of Wessex, to Eadgils, his minister; grant of 20 hides (mansiones) at Butleigh, Somerset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 153r (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 169r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 38 (see Abrams 1996, p. 32)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 843; K, 178 and vol. vi. 227, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 47 (no. 84, from MS 2; B, 300, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 426 (no. 762), ex MS 1

Comments:

K, 178, suggests donor was Queen Eadburh; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. p. cxlviii, suggests donor was King Egbert; Finberg, ECW, no. 401, authentic basis, accepts that donor was Egbert, king of Wessex, witnesses recur in S 268; Scott 1981, pp. 110, 201 n. 103; Edwards 1988, pp. 56-9, substantially genuine, donor was Queen Eadburh; Costen 1992, p. 43, on estate, dates bounds to s. x2; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 32, 38, 61, 76-7, on MS sources, on estate history, donor most likely to have been King Egbert; Foot 1991, p. 174, on abbot Muca