Charter: BL Stowe Ch. 41
Description (from Electronic Saywer)
A.D. 1035. King Cnut to Bishop Eadsige; grant of a half sulung (aratrum) at Berwick in Lympne, Kent. Latin with English bounds
Ward 1935, on bounds; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Bishop 1971, p. xxiii n. 5, Canterbury script; HRH, p. 237, seems to be original, subscriptions are consistent; Brooks 1984, p 295, on beneficiary and background; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, on script; Lawson 1993, p. 69, boundary clause may have been added later, p. 237, Canterbury scribe, may be modelled on S 447 and 464; Keynes 1994/1, p. 51, original.
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Stowe Ch. 41
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- S. 974
- Format
- Single-sheet
- Date
- 1035
Electronic Saywer (S. 974)
A.D. 1035. King Cnut to Bishop Eadsige; grant of a half sulung (aratrum) at Berwick in Lympne, Kent. Latin with English bounds
Ward 1935, on bounds; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Bishop 1971, p. xxiii n. 5, Canterbury script; HRH, p. 237, seems to be original, subscriptions are consistent; Brooks 1984, p 295, on beneficiary and background; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, on script; Lawson 1993, p. 69, boundary clause may have been added later, p. 237, Canterbury scribe, may be modelled on S 447 and 464; Keynes 1994/1, p. 51, original.
