S:
K:
B:
S 264
A.D. 778. Cynewulf, king of the Saxons, to Bica, comes and minister; grant of 13 hides (manentes) at Little Bedwyn, Wilts. Latin with bounds
Archive:
uncertain (possibly Bedwyn)
MSS:
1.
London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 4 (s. viii 2; BM Facs., ii. 3; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 194)
Printed:
K, 133 and vol. iii. 383 ; B, 225 ; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 66
Comments:
Keynes 1994b, p. 1110 n. 2, may be original ; Stevenson 1914, p. 695 n. 34, cited ; Stenton 1918, p. 443 n. 48, on witnesses (= Stenton 1970, p. 57 n. 6) ; Crawford 1921, on bounds ; Darlington 1955, p. 5 ; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 27-8, copy of s. viii/ix ; Stenton 1971, p. 307 n. 1, contemporary ; Rogers 1981, pp. 265-6, on script and orthography ; Dumville 1987, p. 167, script is early-10th-century, possibly written at Bedwyn ; Edwards 1988, pp. 59-62, citing T.J. Brown, 10th-century copy; apparently authentic ; Dumville 1992, pp. 82-3, 109, 112, copy of early 10th century, discusses estate history ; Abrams 1996, p. 175 n. 68, on possible Glastonbury connections of beneficiary, cf. Gl **** (S 1682) ; Sweet, OET, p. 427 (no. 3) ; Grundy, Wilts., I, pp. 151-5, on bounds ; PN Worcs., p. xxxix, on a reading ; Finberg, ECW, no. 194, original ; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 194, copy made at end of 8th or beginning of 9th century ; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xvii, opistograph; copy of s. viii or ix ; Whitelock, EHD, p. 497, contemporary ; Kitson 1992a, pp. 13-14, on linguistic form in boundary clause