Source: CharterS987
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 |
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| Kemble |
1323 |
| British Academy |
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| Source Used |
Kemble |
| Archive(s) |
Canterbury, Christ Church |
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Source Information
| Language |
Old English |
| Date from Source |
1035 |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
1035 |
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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