A.D. 974. King Edgar to Ælfric, abbot of Malmesbury; restoration of 10 hides (manentes) at Eastcourt in Crudwell, Wilts. The land had been forfeited by Ætheloth. Latin

Archive:

Malmesbury

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 417, ff. 19v-20v (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, British Library, Royal 13 D II, f. 38r-v (s. xii)
3. London, Public Record Office, E 164/24, f. 133r-v (s. xiii ex.)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 252, f. 26r (s. xvii)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 5 (S.C. 8593), ff. 44v-46r (s. xiii)
6. Oxford, Magdalen College, 172, f. 94v (s. xii)

Printed:

K, 584, ex MS 1; Hamilton, William of Malmesbury, G.P., pp. 404-5, ex MS 6; Brewer, Reg. Malm., pp. 316-18, ex MS 3; Stubbs, William of Malmesbury, G.R., i. 173-4, ex MS 2; B, 1301, ex Brewer, Hamilton, Stubbs and MS 1

Comments:

Darlington 1955, p. 89; Watkin 1956, p. 213 and n. 80, some very doubtful features; Finberg, ECW, no. 311, authentic; John 1966, p. 280; HRH, p. 231, doubtful although the subscriptions are consistent, apart from the three Æthelwolds (? a scribal error); Wormald 1988, no. 42