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K:
B:
S 704
A.D. 962. King Edgar to Æthel...e, his minister; grant of 3 perticae at Sorley in Churchstow, Devon. Latin with English bounds
Archive:
Buckfast
MSS:
1.
Chelmsford, Essex Record Office, D/DP T209 (s. xi; BA Facs., no. 6; Rose-Troup 1929, pl. 12)
Printed:
Rose-Troup 1929, pp. 250-3 ; Hooke 1990a, p. 210, bounds only ; Hooke 1994, p. 165, bounds only
Comments:
Rose-Troup 1929, pp. 253, 261-6, authentic; on bounds ; Chaplais 1966, p. 14, apparent original, compares formulation with S 770 (= 1981 XV, p. 14) ; Finberg 1969, pp, 23-8, discussion of bounds and estate history ; Dumville 1994, p. 154, physical form anomalous, some problems in script ; Hooke 1994, pp. 165-8, on bounds ; Thompson 2006, pp. 50 et passim, on script ; PN Devon, p. 296 n ; Finberg, ECDC, no. 38 ; Hooke 1990a, pp. 195-200, 206-7, on bounds ; BA Facs., p. 4, probably contemporary but conceivably an 11th-century imitative forgery