Editing Shepton Mallet (section)

===Saxon and Norman periods===
Evidence of [[Anglo-saxon|Saxon]] settlement includes some Saxon stonework in the [[Church of St Peter and St Paul, Shepton Mallet|parish church of St Peter and St Paul]].<ref name="gathercole"/> A charter of King [[Ine of Wessex]], from 706, witnessed by nine bishops including the [[Archbishop of Canterbury]], records that the area where Shepton Mallet now stands was passed to Abbot Berwald of [[Glastonbury Abbey]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Eric |title=Shepton Mallet: An Historical and Postal Survey |year=1958 |publisher=Published by the Author |place=Oakhill, Somerset |pages=1–3}}</ref> According to some legends [[Indract of Glastonbury]] was buried in Shepton.<ref name="robionsonwj">{{Cite book |title=West Country Churches |last=Robinson |first=W.J. |year=1915 |publisher= Bristol Times and Mirror Ltd |location=Bristol |pages=144–149}}</ref> The town was in the [[Whitstone (Somerset hundred)|Whitstone]] [[Hundred (county subdivision)|Hundred]]; the hundred courts were held at Cannard's Grave, just south of the town.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Farbrother |first=John E. |title=Shepton Mallet: Notes on its History, Ancient, Descriptive and Natural |year=1872 |place=Bridgwater |publisher=Reprinted by Somerset County Library 1977 |isbn=0-9503615-3-4 |pages=31–32|edition=Memorial}}</ref><ref name="story">{{Cite book |last1=Davis |first1=Fred |last2=Blandford |first2= Alan |last3=Beckerleg |first3=Lewis |title=The Shepton Mallet Story (2nd Ed) |year=1977 |publisher=The Shepton Mallet Society |location=Oakhill, Somerset |isbn=978-0-9500568-1-4 |page=16}}</ref>

The [[Liber Exoniensis|Exeter Domesday Book]] records that on the death of [[Edward the Confessor]] in 1066, the site was held (probably by lease from the Abbey) by one Uluert, and then by Roger de Corcella at the time of the [[Domesday Book|Domesday survey]] in 1086. When Corcella died, sometime before or around 1100, the land passed to the [[William Malet (Norman conquest)|Malets]], a Norman family whose name was added to that of the settlement (and another of their holdings, Curi – now [[Curry Mallet]]).<ref name="story"/><ref name="autogenerated10">{{Cite book |last=Ford |first=Eric |title=Shepton Mallet: An Historical and Postal Survey |year=1958 |publisher=Published by the Author |place=Oakhill, Somerset |page=10}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sheptonmallet.info/site/index.php?page_id=222 |title=Shepton Mallet Norman History |publisher=Shepton Mallet Town Council |access-date=13 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121065818/http://sheptonmallet.info/site/index.php?page_id=222 |archive-date=21 January 2010}}</ref><ref name="middle ages">{{Cite web |url=http://www.sheptonmallet.info/site/index.php?page_id=223 |title=Shepton Mallet Middle Ages History |publisher=Shepton Mallet Town Council |access-date=13 February 2010 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100121065823/http://sheptonmallet.info/site/index.php?page_id=223 |archive-date=21 January 2010}}</ref>