Charter: BL Cotton Augustus ii.69

Description (from Electronic Saywer)

A.D. 1031. King Cnut to Æthelric, minister; grant of a half hide (mansa) at Meavy, Devon. Latin with English bounds

Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Plummer 1899, p. 206; Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28, suspicious; PN Devon, p. 229 n.; Rose-Troup 1933, p. 126, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, p. 412, date is perhaps wrong; Finberg, ECDC, no. 58; Finberg 1960, no. 58 (pp. 30-2), on bounds; Chaplais 1965, p. 60 n. 105, compares with script of S 971 (= 1973, p. 42 n. 105); Chaplais 1966, p. 24, authentic and original, possibly by a Crediton scribe, also responsible for S 971 (= 1981, XV, p. 24); Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on endorsement; Bishop 1971, p. xxiii n. 5, on script; HRH, p. 233, probably original, although it confuses Canterbury and York, subscriptions otherwise consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 43, p. 126 n. 136; Pearce 1985, pp. 15-19, on topography; Rumble 1987, p. 224, on detail of bounds; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, regressive script; Lawson 1993, pp. 67-8, 238, apparent original, probably drafted in the south-west, errors in witness-list and wrong indiction; Hooke 1994, pp. 196-200, on bounds; Keynes 1994/1, p. 50, witness-list based on that of a charter pf c. 1026 x 1030, two witnesses died in 1030; John of Worcester, pp. 505 n., 513 n.; Keynes 1996, p. 37 n. 199, on witness-list.

Current location

Repository
British Library
Town or City
London
Shelfmark
Cotton Augustus ii.69

Other information

Catalogue Numbers
S. 963
Format
Single-sheet
Date
1031

Electronic Saywer (S. 963)

A.D. 1031. King Cnut to Æthelric, minister; grant of a half hide (mansa) at Meavy, Devon. Latin with English bounds

Bond 1878, p. 7, contemporary; Plummer 1899, p. 206; Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28, suspicious; PN Devon, p. 229 n.; Rose-Troup 1933, p. 126, on bounds; Robertson, Charters, p. 412, date is perhaps wrong; Finberg, ECDC, no. 58; Finberg 1960, no. 58 (pp. 30-2), on bounds; Chaplais 1965, p. 60 n. 105, compares with script of S 971 (= 1973, p. 42 n. 105); Chaplais 1966, p. 24, authentic and original, possibly by a Crediton scribe, also responsible for S 971 (= 1981, XV, p. 24); Hart 1970/1, p. 22, on endorsement; Bishop 1971, p. xxiii n. 5, on script; HRH, p. 233, probably original, although it confuses Canterbury and York, subscriptions otherwise consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 43, p. 126 n. 136; Pearce 1985, pp. 15-19, on topography; Rumble 1987, p. 224, on detail of bounds; Dumville 1993, pp. 133, 134, regressive script; Lawson 1993, pp. 67-8, 238, apparent original, probably drafted in the south-west, errors in witness-list and wrong indiction; Hooke 1994, pp. 196-200, on bounds; Keynes 1994/1, p. 50, witness-list based on that of a charter pf c. 1026 x 1030, two witnesses died in 1030; John of Worcester, pp. 505 n., 513 n.; Keynes 1996, p. 37 n. 199, on witness-list.