ABBREVIATIONS (a) Abbreviations of Some Works Cited The figure in brackets indicates the number of the work in the bibliography.

AfU: Archiu for Urkundmforschung AHR: American Historical Review ASC: Anglo-Saxon Charters (ed. Robertson) [51) ASChr: Anglo-Saxon Chronule (ed. Thorpe) [4] ASEng: F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England [202] ASW: Anglo-Saxon Wills (ed. Whitelock) [52] BJRL: Bulletin of the John Rylands Library BKN: W. G. Searle, Anglo-Saxon Bishops, Kings and Nobles [194) CD: Codex diplomaticus aevi Saxonici (ed. Kemble) [56] CH: W. Stubbs, The Constitutional History of England [215) CHJ: Cambridge Historical Journal CHMed: J. E. A. Jolliffe, The Constitutional History of Medieval England [140] CHur6: W. A. Morris, The Constitutional History of England to r:u6 [167) Chron Abingdon: Chronuon Monasterii de Abingdon [9] Chron Evesham: Chronicon abbati£ de Evesham [ 7] Chron Rameseiensis: Chronicon abbatitz Rameseiensis [8] CrawCol: The Crawford Collection of Early Charters and Documents (ed. Napier and Stevenson) [57) CS: Cartularium Saxonicum (ed. Birch) [55) DB: Domesday Book (ed. Farley and Ellis) [6o] DEPN: E. Ekwall, Oxford Dictionary of English Place Names [1o8] EHR: English Historual Review Encomium: Encomium Emmae reginae (ed. Campbell) [ 11] FAG: Facsimiles of Ancient Charters in the British Museum [61) FASM: Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts (ed. Sanders) [62) FlWig: Florentii Wigomiensis monachi chronicon ex chronuis (ed. Thorpe) [15] GP: Willelmi Malmesbiriensis de gestis pontificum Anglorum libri quinque (ed. Hamilton) [41) GR: Willelmi Malmesbiriensis monachi de gestis regum Anglorum libri quinque (ed. Stubbs) [42) HLC: A Hand-Book to the Land-Charters and Other Saxonic Documents (ed. Earle) [64) iF: lslen;:kfomrit [23) LD: The Lincolnshire Domesday and the Lindsey Survey (ed. Foster and Longley) [66) MGH: Monumenta Germaniae Historica MHB: Monumenta Historica Britannica NA: F. Liebermann, The National Assembly in the Anglo-Saxon Period [156) NC: E. A. Freeman, The History of the Norman Conquest of England [114) X Abbreviations Peter Chron: The Chronide of Hugh Candidus (ed. Mellows) [22] PL: Patrologia Latina P.NDB: 0 . von Feilitzen, The Pre-Conquest Personal .Names of Domesday Book [112) RAS: W. Stubbs, Registrum sacrum Anglicanum [215) RB: Revue Benidictine RS: Rolls Sems (The Chronicles and Memorials of Great Britain and Ireland) TCPB: Two Chartularies of the Priory of St. Peter at Bath (ed. Hunt) [72] TRHS: Transactions of the Royal Historical Society (4th series) TSCP: Two of the Saxon Chronicles Parallel (ed. Earle and Plummer) [36) VCH: The Victoria History of the Counties of England [225) Vita Wuifstani: The Vita Wulfstani of William of Malmesbury (ed. Darlington) [40) Writs: Anglo-Saxon Writs (ed. Harmer) [53)

(b) Other Abbreviations Bd Bedfordshire He Herefordshire 0 Oxfordshire Bk Buckinghamshire Ht Hertfordshire Olcel Old Icelandic Br Berkshire Hu Huntingdonshire Sa Shropshire C Cambridgeshire K Kent Sf Suffolk Ch Cheshire L Lincolnshire So Somerset Co Cornwall, Cornish La Lancashire Sr Surrey D Devonshire Lei Leicestershire St Staffordshire Db Derbyshire Mx Middlesex Sx Sussex Do Dorset Nb Northumberland w Wiltshire E Essex Nf Norfolk Wa Warwickshire EA East Anglia Nt Nottinghamshire Wo Worcestershire GI Gloucestershire Nth Northamptonshire y Yorkshire Ha Hampshire