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.