Charter: BL Campbell Ch. xxi.5
Description (from Electronic Saywer)
A.D. 1052 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church judicial and financial rights over their own men and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have. English
Harmer 1938, p. 347; Harmer, Writs, pp. 173-5, 451-2, an authentic writ, with all but the first three lines rewritten later; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, authentic writ but altered at Christ Church in s. xii; Chaplais 1966, pp. 18-19, (= 1981, XV pp. 18-19); Chaplais 1966a, p. 175 n. 124, (= 1973, p. 60 n. 124); Dumville 1983, pp. 49-50, attributes 12th-century tampering to the scribe of ASC MS F (BL Cotton Domitian viii), cf. also S 1221; Brooks 1984, p. 388 n. 140; English Romanesque Art, p. 30, on seal; Golden Age, p. 167 (no. 170); Keynes 1988, p. 215 n. 180; Wormald 1995, p. 129, on a formula; Sharpe 2003, p. 287, part of sequence of writs
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Campbell Ch. xxi.5
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- S. 1088
- Format
- Single-sheet
- Date
- 1052×1066
Electronic Saywer (S. 1088)
A.D. 1052 x 1066. Writ of King Edward declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Stigand and the community at Christ Church judicial and financial rights over their own men and over as many thegns as he has granted them to have. English
Harmer 1938, p. 347; Harmer, Writs, pp. 173-5, 451-2, an authentic writ, with all but the first three lines rewritten later; Bishop and Chaplais 1957, authentic writ but altered at Christ Church in s. xii; Chaplais 1966, pp. 18-19, (= 1981, XV pp. 18-19); Chaplais 1966a, p. 175 n. 124, (= 1973, p. 60 n. 124); Dumville 1983, pp. 49-50, attributes 12th-century tampering to the scribe of ASC MS F (BL Cotton Domitian viii), cf. also S 1221; Brooks 1984, p. 388 n. 140; English Romanesque Art, p. 30, on seal; Golden Age, p. 167 (no. 170); Keynes 1988, p. 215 n. 180; Wormald 1995, p. 129, on a formula; Sharpe 2003, p. 287, part of sequence of writs
