S:
K:
B:

Instant Sawyer

Hide

A.D. 766 for ? 774. Cynewulf, king of Wessex, to St Andrew's minster, Wells; grant of 2 (or 11) hides (manentes) on the river Wellow, Somerset. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Wells

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, f. 32v (s. xvii; incomplete)
2. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128, f. 151r (s. xvii; incomplete)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. C. 241, f. 31r (s. xvi; abbreviated)
4. Wells, DC., Liber Albus II, ff. 404v-405r (s. xiv/xv)

Printed: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

Alford 1663, ii. 617-18; K, 115 and vol. iii. 379; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 285 (no. 1); B, 200, ex MS 4

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 70 (pp. 497-8)

Comments: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

Grundy, Somerset, pp. 197-8, on bounds; Ekwall 1962, p. 24, identifies with Radstock, Somerset; Finberg 1964, p. 104, cited; Finberg, ECW, no. 394, authentic, rejects Radstock identification; Whitelock, EHD, p. 497, date may be miscopied; Edwards 1988, pp. 252, 259-61, perhaps an authentic charter in favour of Sherborne, later altered at Wells; Barker 2005a, on Sherborne's estate at Lyme, with map; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 12, Discussion of a likely spurious document that references the community of St. Andrew living in Wells, p. 31, Charter showing the extent of King Cynewulf of Wessex's ability to distribute land north and south of the Avon, p. 230, Late 7th century charter that contains simple directional phrases, unlike the more details boundaries in S 237, p. 259, Charter from the period of King Ine's reign with similar features in its witness list to S 259, supporting the notion that the latter was based on authentic documents