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A.D. 793. Offa, king of Mercia, to the church of St Alban; grant of privileges and of 34 hides (mansiones) at Cassio, Herts., 6 at Heanhamstede (cf. Hamstead's House, St Stephens, Herts.) and 10 at Stanmore, Middx. Latin with English and English bounds
Archive:
St Albans
MSS:
2.
Derbyshire, Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, f. 9r (s. xiv 2; lacks bounds)
3.
London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 149r (s. xiii; lacks bounds)
4.
London, Public Record Office, C 53, 29 Edw. I, no. 21
5.
London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6 Edw. II, no. 38
6.
London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Edw. II, no. 34
7.
London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6-7 Hen. IV, no. 7
8.
London, Public Record Office, C 53, 2-4 Edw. IV, no. 9
9.
London, Public Record Office, C 56, 4, no. 1
10.
London, Public Record Office, C 56, 12, no. 6
11.
London, Public Record Office, C 56, 32, no. 1
12.
London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Hen. VI, pt 1, mm. 7-2
1.
Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 153r-154v (s. xvii)
Printed:
Watts, Additamenta, pp. 237-8 ; Spelman, Concilia, i. 313-14 ; Mon. Angl., i. 177-8 ; Alford 1663, ii. 669 ; K, 162 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 223-4 (no. 5) ; HS, pp. 478-80 ; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 1-4 ; B, 267, ex MS 3 ; Earle, pp. 396-9 ; Williams 1917, pp. 239-41
Comments:
Stevenson 1914, pp. 692 n. 16, 702, spurious ; Williams 1917, pp. 11-12, spurious ; Scharer 1982, pp. 272-3, spurious ; Keynes 1993, pp. 260, 263, 272 n. 54, on MS 1; on dating ; Cubitt 1995, pp. 273-4, blatant forgery but witness-list may be sound ; Crick 2002, examines circumstances of forgery ; HS, pp. 478-80, probably spurious ; PN Middx, p. 65 ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 162 (pp. 80-1, 101), spurious, although first third of text may be genuine