A.D. 681. Æthelred, king of Mercia, to Aldhelm, abbot, and his successors; grant of 30 hides (cassati) west of the highway (Long Newnton, Wilts., cf S 1038) and 15 near Tetbury, Gloucs. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, f. 9r-v (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/24, f. 122v (s. xiii ex.)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 5 (S.C. 8593), ff. 13v-14v (s. xiii)
4. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, ff. 82v-83r (s. xii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 51; Wharton, Anglia Sacra, ii. 10; K, 22, ex Wharton and MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 258 (no. 6); Giles, Opera Aldhelmi, p. 343; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 35-1, ex MS 4; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 281-2, ex MS 2; B, 58, ex Brewer, K, Mon. Angl. and MS 1

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 438, of ill repute (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); Darlington 1955, p. 3; Watkin 1956, p. 211 and n. 22, citing Stenton, genuine; Finberg, ECW, no. 183, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 2, authentic, and p. 237; Stenton 1971, p. 69, cited; Scharer 1982, pp. 149-50, spurious, based on S 71; Edwards 1988, pp. 90-2, interpolated version of S 71