Source: CharterS980

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Description

King Cnut to Bury St Edmund's Abbey; grant of privileges and of renders of fish from Welle (Upwell and Outwell, Norfolk) and of eels from Lakenheath, Suffolk.

Charter information
Sawyer 980
Birch ---
Kemble 735
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Bury St Edmunds
Source Information
Language Latin with Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 1021 x 1023

Notes

Goodwin 1855, pp. 94-104, authentic, dates it 1021 x 1022; Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Galbraith 1925, p. 224; Lobel 1935, pp. 4, 5, form dubious but no reason to doubt content; Harmer, Writs, pp. 433-4, authenticity in present form questionable, cf. S 1046; Hart, ECEE, no. 86, may be authentic; HRH, p. 233, dubious, dates 1022 x 1023; Keynes 1980, p. 126 n. 136, p. 143 n. 212, dubious; Gransden 1985, pp. 10-11, forged; BA Facs., p. 10, late-11th-century forgery; Dumville 1993, p. 37 n. 141, pp. 40-1, 133; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, p. 239, likely forgery, links with S 984; Keynes 1994/1, p. 49 n. 39, p. 52 n. 51, spurious, partly modelled on S 984; Wormald 1995, p. 128; Wormald 1996, p. 123