Charter: BL Cotton Ch. viii.14
Description (from Electronic Saywer)
Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 302, on place-names; HRH, p. 231, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell, Rochester, p. xv, MS 1 contemporary, pp. xxiv-v, land had been seized from Rochester cathedral, p. xxvi, not in any way suspicious; Hart, ECNE, p. 28 n. 3, Winchester formulation, may be a copy; Barker 1977, pp. 182-3, discusses beneficiary and estate history; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 89-90, 246, original; Wormald 1986, pp. 158, 161, on connection with Bromley dispute; Dumville 1993, p. 153 n. 72, last surviving royal diploma written in Square Minuscule; Dumville 1994, p. 156 n. 125, p. 161, on script; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on survival of S 864 after land was restored to Rochester; cf. S 893, recording Rochester's recovery of part of the estate.
Main proportions: 90/90/90 90/130
B-C proportions: 90/60/80 70/100
Current location
- Repository
- British Library
- Town or City
- London
- Shelfmark
- Cotton Ch. viii.14
Other information
- Catalogue Numbers
- S. 864
- Format
- Single-sheet
- Date
- 987
Electronic Saywer (S. 864)
Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 302, on place-names; HRH, p. 231, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell, Rochester, p. xv, MS 1 contemporary, pp. xxiv-v, land had been seized from Rochester cathedral, p. xxvi, not in any way suspicious; Hart, ECNE, p. 28 n. 3, Winchester formulation, may be a copy; Barker 1977, pp. 182-3, discusses beneficiary and estate history; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 89-90, 246, original; Wormald 1986, pp. 158, 161, on connection with Bromley dispute; Dumville 1993, p. 153 n. 72, last surviving royal diploma written in Square Minuscule; Dumville 1994, p. 156 n. 125, p. 161, on script; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on survival of S 864 after land was restored to Rochester; cf. S 893, recording Rochester's recovery of part of the estate.
Main proportions: 90/90/90 90/130
B-C proportions: 90/60/80 70/100