Charter: BL Cotton Augustus ii.70
Description (from Electronic Saywer)
c. A.D. 1045. Agreement between Archbishop Eadsige and Æthelric concerning land at Chart, Stowting, Milton and a haga in Canterbury, all in Kent. The land at Chart had been purchased by Archbishop Ceolnoth wth his own money from the thegn Hæletha and granted to him by charter by Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (A.D. 839 x 856; cf. CCC 18, S 1625). Old and Middle English versions
Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 324-5, on place-names; Robertson, Charters, pp. 436-8; Barker 1949, p. 107, original; Harmer, Writs, p. 51, not earlier than 26 Dec. 1045; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic, dates it 1045; Ker, Catlaogue, p. xxxii, on script; HRH, p. 236, probably original, dates it 1045 x 1047; Brooks 1984, pp. 105, 148, 302-3, 354-5 n. 65; Lowe 1993a, pp. 10-15, on MSS 3, 4; Kennedy 1995, p. 141 n. 43, on detail of witness-list; Pelteret 1995, p. 167.
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Cotton Augustus ii.70
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- S. 1471
- Format
- Single-sheet
- Date
- ca 1045
Electronic Saywer (S. 1471)
c. A.D. 1045. Agreement between Archbishop Eadsige and Æthelric concerning land at Chart, Stowting, Milton and a haga in Canterbury, all in Kent. The land at Chart had been purchased by Archbishop Ceolnoth wth his own money from the thegn Hæletha and granted to him by charter by Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (A.D. 839 x 856; cf. CCC 18, S 1625). Old and Middle English versions
Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 324-5, on place-names; Robertson, Charters, pp. 436-8; Barker 1949, p. 107, original; Harmer, Writs, p. 51, not earlier than 26 Dec. 1045; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic, dates it 1045; Ker, Catlaogue, p. xxxii, on script; HRH, p. 236, probably original, dates it 1045 x 1047; Brooks 1984, pp. 105, 148, 302-3, 354-5 n. 65; Lowe 1993a, pp. 10-15, on MSS 3, 4; Kennedy 1995, p. 141 n. 43, on detail of witness-list; Pelteret 1995, p. 167.
