Source: CharterS1471

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Agreement between Archbishop Eadsige and Æthelric concerning land at Chart, Stowting, Milton and a haga in Canterbury, all in Kent. The land at Chart had been purchased by Archbishop Ceolnoth wth his own money from the thegn Hæletha and granted to him by charter by Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (A.D. 839 x 856; cf. CCC 18, S 1625).

Charter information
Sawyer 1471
Birch ---
Kemble 773
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Scholarly Source Dating 1045

Notes

Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 324-5, on place-names; Robertson, Charters, pp. 436-8; Barker 1949, p. 107, original; Harmer, Writs, p. 51, not earlier than 26 Dec. 1045; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic, dates it 1045; Ker, Catlaogue, p. xxxii, on script; HRH, p. 236, probably original, dates it 1045 x 1047; Brooks 1984, pp. 105, 148, 302-3, 354-5 n. 65; Lowe 1993a, pp. 10-15, on MSS 3, 4; Kennedy 1995, p. 141 n. 43, on detail of witness-list; Pelteret 1995, p. 167.

Notes: Central portion of a chirograph (CYROGRAPHVM CYROGRAPHVM), of which copies were held by Christ Church, St Augustine's and Æthelric.