A.D. 871 x 899. Alfred, king of the English, to Chertsey Abbey; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Thorpe, with Getinges (cf. Eaton Farm, Chobham), Hunewaldesham (cf. Hundulsham, lost, in Weybridge) and Woodham, Surrey. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Chertsey

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. XIII, ff. 35v-37r (s. xiii)

Printed:

K, 318 and vol. iii. 401-2; Corner 1858, pp. 95-6; B, 563

Comments:

Corner 1858; Stevenson 1904, p. 151 n. 2, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 322, spurious, bounds are probably a Middle English version of an Old English text; Whitelock 1979, p. 92 n. 5, forgery; Dumville 1992, p. 52, formulas more appropriate to 940s and 950s; Smyth 1995, p. 373