Source: CharterS954
Description
King Cnut to Ęthelwold, abbot, and the brethren of Exeter, St Mary's; confirmation of privileges. The community's earlier landbooks had been burnt when the minster was destroyed by the Danes.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
954 |
| Birch |
--- |
| Kemble |
729 |
| British Academy |
--- |
| Source Used |
Kemble |
| Archive(s) |
Exeter |
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Source Information
| Language |
Latin |
| Date from Source |
1019 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
1019 |
|
Notes
Larson 1910, p. 723 n. 14, p. 725 n. 28, doubtful; Finberg, ECDC, no. 54; Whitelock 1959, p. 81, cited; Chaplais 1966, pp. 4-5, possibly forged at the same time as S 953 (= 1981, XV pp. 4-5); HRH, p. 233, spurious, although subscriptions are mainly consistent; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 53, p. 100 n. 51, forgery modelled on S 880, cf. S 953; Dumville 1993, p. 80, of uncertain merit; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, p, 238, suspect, local production; Hooke 1994, p. 187; Keynes 1994/1, p. 52 n. 51, p. 68 n. 145, forgery modelled on S 880, witness-list from genuine text