A.D. 968. King Edgar to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 25 hides (cassati) at Fyfield, Berks. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Abingdon

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 167-168 (s. xvi; ex 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius B. VI, ff. 79r-80r (s. xiii in.)
4. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 121v (s. xii 2; no bounds)
5. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius C. IX, ff. 105-203, f. 197v (s. xii 2; bounds only)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius D. VII, f. 34r (s. xvi; ex 2)

Printed:

K, 546; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 323-6; B, 1221; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 10; PN Berks., iii. 710, bounds only; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 110

Comments:

Grundy, Berks., III, pp. 110-11, on bounds; Drögereit 1935, p. 426, suspicious; PN Berks., i. 14, ii. 408-9, iii. 710, survey describes modern parish of Fyfield; Gelling, ECTV, no. 106, authentic; Keynes 1980, p. 11 nn. 16, 17, some of the formulae may be derived from S 896; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 110, evidently drawn up at Abingdon, authenticity uncertain