A.D. 860. Æthelbald, king of Wessex, to Osmund, his minister; grant of 14 hides (cassati) at Teffont, Wilts. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Shaftesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 61, f. 18r-v (s. xv in.)

Printed:

K, 284 and vol. iii. 395; B, 500; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 3

Comments:

Stevenson 1904, p. 216 n. 3, suspicious; Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, dubious or spurious; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 181-3, refers to Teffont Evias; Darlington 1955, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 209, authentic; Keynes 1988, p. 185 n. 3, note on formulation; Hooke 1994a, pp. 90-3, on bounds, with map; Keynes 1994b, pp. 1123-34, esp. p. 1129, authentic, perhaps drafted by royal scribe; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 17-19, authentic, incorrect indiction probably added by copyist