A.D. 946. King Edmund to Æthelhere, his faithful minister; grant of 5 hides (mansae) at Weston near Bath, Somerset, on condition that he and his heirs remain faithful to Edmund until the king's death and thereafter transfer their loyalty to a designated friend (amicus) of the king. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Bath

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 55-131, pp. 67-70 (s. xii 2)

Printed:

K, 408 and vol. iii. 423-4; B, 814; Hunt, Bath Carts., pp. 13-15; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 84

Comments:

Grundy, Somerset, pp. 221-7, on bounds; Finberg, ECW, no. 457, authentic; Abels 1988, pp. 225-6 n. 38, on unusual condition of inheritance; Costen 1991, p. 42, possible reference to open-field agriculture in bounds; Costen 1991, p. 43, possible reference to open-field agriculture in bounds