A.D. 1024. King Cnut to Orc, his minister; grant of 7 hides (mansae) at Portesham (alias Portisham), Dorset. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Abbotsbury

MSS:

1. Dorchester, Dorset R.O., D 124, 2 (OS Facs., ii, Earl of Ilchester, no. 2)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 269-70; K, 741; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), iii. 54-5 (no. 2)

Comments:

Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Stevenson 1912, p. 8, contemporary; Grundy, Dorset, V, pp. 113-18, survey describes Domesday units of Portesham and Broad Waddon; Harmer, Writs, p. 576; Ker, Catalogue, p. 317, on witnesses, Canterbury script; Finberg, ECW, no. 620, original; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Stenton 1971, p. 414, cited; HRH, p. 233, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Forsberg 1973, on bounds; Keynes 1989, pp. 208, 220, 230-1, 237; Dumville 1993, pp. 117, 133, 134, genuine, difficult to categorize palaeographically; Lawson 1993, pp. 66-7, 169, 170, 239, original; discusses witness-list and formulation; Keynes 1994a, pp. 50, 52 n. 50, original; possibly a regional production