A.D. 984. King Æthelred to Ælfwine, his scriptor; grant of 6 hides (cassati) in the common land, comprising 3 at Brighthampton, 2 at Aston Bampton, and 1 at Lew, Oxon. Latin

Archive:

Burton

MSS:

1. Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Peniarth 390, ff. 1-184, ff. 178v-179r (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

Hart, ECNE, pp. 187-8; Sawyer, Burton, no. 24

Comments:

PN Oxon., ii. 302, 327, 329; Hart, ECNE, pp. 189-92, incomplete copy of authentic charter; Gelling, ECTV, no. 282, authentic, original unlikely to have contained boundaries; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, authentic, estates seem to have been part of a royal estate at Bampton; Keynes 1980, pp. 85 n. 7, 100 n. 51, 135, 160-1, 243, authentic; Chaplais 1985, p. 44, on beneficiary; Dumville 1993, p. 93 n. 49; Lapidge 1993, p. 170 n. 39, on chrismon; Blair 1994, pp. 128, 133