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A.D. 795 for 792 (Æt Beranforda [? Barford, Warwicks.], 4 May). Offa, king of Mercia, to St Albans church; grant of 30 hides (manentes), consisting of 12 at Winslow, Bucks.; 3 at Scelfdune sive Baldiningcotum; 10 at Scuccan hlaw vel Fenntun (cf. Warren Farm in Horwood, Bucks.) with the wood called Horowudu (Horwood, Bucks.); and 5 at Lygetune (? Luton, Beds., or Leyton, Essex). Latin with English bounds

Archive:

St Albans

MSS:

4. Derbyshire, Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, f. 1r (s. xiv 2)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 149r-v (s. xiii)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, f. 152r-v (s. xiii)
9. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 6-7 Hen. IV, no. 7
10. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 2-4 Edw. IV, m. 26
11. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 4, no. 1
12. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 12, no. 6
13. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 32, no. 1
14. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Hen. VI, pt 1, mm. 7-2
15. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152) (s. xvii)
1. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 154v-155v (s. xvii)
2. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 167r-168r (s. xvii)
3. Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale, 7965-73 (3723), ff. 168v-169r (s. xvii)
5. Derbyshire, Chatsworth, St Albans Cartulary, f. 2r (s. xiv 2)
8. London, British Library, Cotton Nero D. I, ff. 149-61, ff. 152v-153r (s. xiii)

Printed:

Watts, Additamenta, pp. 238-9 ; Mon. Angl., i. 178 ; Alford 1663, ii. 675-6 ; K, 161 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 224 (no. 6) ; Luard, Additamenta, pp. 4-8 ; B, 264, ex MS 6 ; B, 849, ex MS 8 ; Earle, pp. 395-6, in part ; Williams 1917, pp. 242-3

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, pp. 692 n. 16, 702, spurious ; Williams 1917, pp. 12-14, spurious but some small authentic basis ; Brooks 1971, p. 83 n. 4, spurious ; Baines 1980, on bounds ; Scharer 1982, pp. 272-3, spurious ; Dumville 1992, p. 50, forged not earlier than late 10th century ; Keynes 1993, pp. 264, 268, 269, 272, spurious, MSS 1-3 display progressive stages of interpolation in the Latin text, discusses date ; Bailey 1999, on bounds in Brussels MS ; Crick 2002, examines circumstances of forgery ; PN Beds. and Hunts., p. 156 ; PN Bucks., pp. 68, 69, 73, 75 ; Gelling, ECTV, no. 144, spurious, discusses place-names, Scelfdune is not Salden in Mursley ; Keynes 1994c, p. 27