Source: CharterS951

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Description

King Cnut to Buruhwold, bishop; confirmation of a grant made by King Edmund Ironside of 4 hides (cassatae) at Landrake and at Tinnell in Landulph, Cornwall, in exchange for land at Throwleigh, Devon. The land at Landrake to revert on the bishop's death to St German's.

Charter information
Sawyer 951
Birch 728
Kemble ---
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Exeter ex St German's
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Date from Source 1018
Scholarly Source Dating 1018

Notes

Davidson 1883, pp. 285-7, authentic; Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 24, slightly later hand; Finberg, ECDC, no. 53 (pp. 14, 19); Stenton 1955, p. 82, cited; Chaplais 1966, pp. 21-2 (no. 21), script unlikely to be earlier than third quarter of s. xi, the document as a whole is not authentic and it is impossible to say how much genuine material it may contain (= 1981, XV pp. 21-2); Stenton 1971, p. 409, cited; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent, but charter is probably not authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 597; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 43, on formula; Olson 1989, p. 77 n. 153; Dumville 1993, p. 133, cited; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, p. 238, suspect, probably a local production; Hooke 1994, pp. 55-62, 186-7, on bounds; Keynes 1994/1, p. 52 n. 51, p. 68 n. 148, probably spurious, but witness-list from genuine text

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
  EHD     597-9 [no. 131]