A.D. 973. King Edgar to Glastonbury Abbey; grant of 7 hides (mansiunculae) at High Ham, Somerset, in exchange for land at Braunton, Devon. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 174r (s. xiv med.)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), ff. 190v-191r (s. xiv)
3. Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 83 (see Abrams 1996, p. 33)

Printed:

K, 577, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 92), ex MS 2; B, 1294, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 22, ex MS 2; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 493 (no. 901), ex MS 1

Comments:

Grundy, Somerset, pp. 118-25, on bounds; Turner 1951; Finberg, ECDC, p. 12 (no. 40); Finberg, ECW, no. 517, authentic; Hart, ECNE, pp. 19-22, on charter-type, which he labels 'Dunstan B'; Keynes 1980, p. 48 n. 89, 'Dunstan B' formulation; Hooke 1994, p. 115, cited; Keynes 1994, on formulation, esp. p. 178; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 33, 38, 66-9, 134-5, on MS sources, on Braunton, on Ham; Costen 1991, p. 43, possible reference to open-field agriculture in bounds; Costen 1991, p. 43, possible reference to open-field agriculture in bounds