Source: CharterS990

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Writ of King Cnut declaring that he has given to St Augustine the body of St Mildred with all her land and with all the 'customs' belonging to her church.

Charter information
Sawyer 990
Birch ---
Kemble 1326
British Academy Kelly, St Augustine's No. 33
Source Used Brit_Ac
Archive(s) Canterbury, St Augustine's
Source Information
Language Latin
Scholarly Source Dating 1027 x 1035

Notes

Harmer, Writs, pp. 191-7, 454-7, authenticity uncertain; Sharpe 1991, ppp. 353-4, spurious; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, probably spurious; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. 122, probably spurious, according to a note in MS 10 the pseudo-original had a seal