A.D. 947. King Eadred to Eadric, his faithful comes; grant of 20 hides (mansae) at Ashdown Park in Ashbury, Berks. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 209r-v (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 245r-v (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 108

Printed:

Mon. Angl., ii. 843, ex MS 2; Warner 1826, Appendix, pp. lii-iii, ex Mon. Angl; K, 415 and vol. vi. 232-3, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 51-2 (no. 103); B, 828, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 89; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., iii. 686-7 (no. 1272), ex MS 1; PN Berks., iii. 694, bounds only

Comments:

Drögereit 1935, pp. 377-9; Forsberg 1950, pp. 158-9, on bounds; PN Berks., ii. 344-7, iii. 677, 694-6, not clear if bounds cover whole parish of Ashbury or only its western half; Gelling, ECTV, no. 52, authentic but bounds modernized; Forsberg 1984, p. 4, on bounds; Abrams 1996, pp. 30, 34, 39, 47-9, on MS sources; on estate, the 14th-century cartularies note that Eadric gave the land to Dunstan