A.D. 624 (? for 674). Wulfhere, king of Mercia, to Beorhtferth, his kinsman; grant of 5 hides (manentes) at Dillington, Hunts., in return for 30 mancuses of gold. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. Ch. 19788 (BM Facs., iv. 1)

Printed:

B, 32; Earle, pp. 4-5

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, probably written in 11th century; Maitland 1897, pp. 229, 235, open to grave suspicion; Stenton 1918, p. 434 n. 6, spurious (= Stenton 1970, p. 49 n. 3); Grundy, Wilts., I, p. 150, rejects identification with Dilton, Wilts.; PN Beds. and Hunts., p. 269; Chaplais 1965, p. 50 n., typical forgery (= 1973, p. 31 n. 24); Hart, ECEE, no. 3, spurious, MS probably post-Conquest and very poorly preserved, date may originally have read 674, four witnesses are 8th-century, formulation is mid 9th century, hidage as in Domesday Book; Scharer 1982, pp. 145-6, spurious; Dumville 1993, p. 48 n. 210, notes Ramsey connection with estate.