A.D. 946. King Edmund to Æthelnoth, his minister; grant or lease of 5 hides (mansae) at North Wootton, Somerset, burdened with annual renders to St Mary's, Glastonbury. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 160v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 177r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 131 (see Abrams 1996, p. 34)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 838, ex MS 2; K, 406 and vol. vi. 232, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 48 (no. 88); B, 816, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 447 (no. 814), ex MS 1

Comments:

Davidson 1884, pp. 20-3, on bounds; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 94-8, on bounds; PN Worcs., p. 106 n; Barker 1949, p. 72; Finberg, ECW, no. 458, authentic; Chaplais 1966a, p. 164, on connection with Dunstan (= 1973, p. 47); Keynes 1980, pp. 27 n. 40, 48 n. 87, probably authentic; on formulation; Scott 1981, pp. 114, 202 n. 122; Vollrath 1985, p. 227; Costen 1992, p. 40, on estate; Keynes 1994, pp. 182-5, in some respects anticipates 'Dunstan B' formulation; Abrams 1996, pp. 28, 34, 35, 38, 97, 181-4, 237, 271, 307, 324, on MS sources; on estate; authenticity uncertain; Keynes 1996, p. 20 n. 53, details bear comparison with S 1417