Source: CharterS187

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Description

Ceolwulf, king of the Mercians and of the people of Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of land in Canterbury, in return for a gold and silver vessel of 5.5 pounds.

Charter information
Sawyer 187
Birch 373
Kemble 217
British Academy ---
Source Used Birch
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Latin
Date from Source 27th May 823
Scholarly Source Dating 823

Notes

*Sweet, OET, p. 458 (no. 56); Stevenson 1914, p. 699 n. 48, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 450, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 64); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 145, on place-names; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 24-6, MS 1 genuine and contemporary, note on dorse is a scribal memorandum, written before folding; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Brooks 1971, p. 73 n. 4; Brooks 1984, p. 136, on background, pp. 168, 360 n. 70, scribe perhaps Archbishop Wulfred himself, also wrote S 186; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Campbell 1989, p. 28, on counter-payment; Dumville 1992, p. 4 n. 17, original; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 114-15, 119.