A.D. 871x877. Alfred, king, to the church of Shaftesbury; grant of privileges and of land at Donhead (St Andrew and St Mary), Wilts.; Compton Abbas, Sixpenny Handley, Gussage (St Andrew), Tarrant Hinton, Iwerne Minster and Fontmell Magna, Dorset. English and Latin versions

Archive:

Shaftesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 61, ff. 21v-22r (s. xv in.; English)
2. London, British Library, Harley 61, f. 22r (s. xv in.; Latin)

Printed:

Hutchins 1774, ii. 21; K, 310; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 477 (no. 2); B, 531, ex MS 1; B, 532, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 42; Kelly, Shaftesbury, no. 7

Comments:

Robertson, Charters, pp. 284-5, dates it 871 x 877, it has highly suspicious features; Darlington 1955, p. 95; Finberg, ECW, no. 212, doubtful features; O'Donovan 1973, pp. 103, 109, suspicious; Whitelock 1979, p. 78 and n. 5, forgery; Meyer 1981, p. 272 n. 237; Keynes and Lapidge 1983, p. 272 n. 237, plainly spurious; PN Dorset, ii. 119-20, 278, iii. 103, 113, 114, 123, 139; Kelly, Shaftesbury, pp. 29-30, spurious, forger has used a contemporary witness-list; Pelteret 1995, p. 167, cited; Smyth 1995, pp. 266, 373; Barker 1984, pp. 35-7, on the Sixpenny Hundred, with map; Foot 2000, II. 166