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S 251
A.D. 725. Ine, king of Wessex, to the familia at Glastonbury; grant of 12 hides (manentes) at Sowy (cf. Othery, Middlezoy and Westonzoyland), Somerset. Latin with English bounds
Archive:
Glastonbury
MSS:
1.
Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 174r-v (s. xiv med.)
2.
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 191r-v (s. xiv)
3.
Lost Glastonbury Liber Terrarum, no. 14 (see Abrams 1996, p. 31)
Printed:
Mon. Angl., ii. 839-40, ex MS 2 ; K, 74 and vol. vi. 226, ex MS 2 ; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 49 (no. 93) ; B, 143, ex K and MS 2 ; Earle, p. 426, bounds only ; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., ii. 495 (no. 903), ex MS 1
Comments:
Davidson 1884, pp. 11, 13-14 ; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 39, spurious ; Cox 1976, pp. 29, 33, on place-names ; Scott 1981, pp. 95, 198 n. 87 ; Morland 1982, bounds may also include Westonzoyland and Othery ; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements ; Edwards 1988, pp. 38-40, 48-52, 205, may be genuine or have some genuine basis, boundary clause an addition; on formulation; probably model for S 249 ; Costen 1992, pp. 41-2, on estate ; Abrams 1996, pp. 29, 31, 35, 38, 190, 205, 218-20, on MS sources; on estate history ; Bates, Two Cartularies, p. 36, agrees mutatis mutandis with S 249, for proem see S 298 ; Grundy, Somerset, pp. 116-18, bounds are of Middlezoy ; Finberg, ECW, no. 379, authentic