Source: CharterS987

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Description

Writ of King Cnut declaring that Archbishop Æthelnoth is to continue to discharge the obligations on the lands belonging to the archbishopric at the same rate as he has done hitherto, both before and after the appointment of Æthelric as reeve.

Charter information
Sawyer 987
Birch ---
Kemble 1323
British Academy ---
Source Used Kemble
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Old English
Date from Source 1035
Scholarly Source Dating 1035

Notes

Harmer, Writs, pp. 171-2, 450, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 346-7 (no. 284), art. g, on MS; Chaplais 1966, p. 18, copy in Canterbury gospel-book, declaration may originally have reached Canterbury in oral form (= 1981, XV p. 18); Chaplais 1966/1, p. 175, authentic, contemporary scribe (= 1973, pp. 59-60); Dumville 1983, p. 53, on MS; Brooks 1984, p. 296 and p. 387 n. 120; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183, stylistic links with S 1113; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, p. 237