Source: CharterS1448
Description
Æthelwold, bishop, to St Peter's, Medeshamstede (Peterborough); record of gifts including land at Medeshamstede, Anlafestun; at Farcet and Whittlesey Mere, Hunts.; at Oundle and Kettering, Northants.; and at Well (cf. Outwell, Upwell, Welney, Cambs. and Norfolk); tithe from the double hundreds of Normancross, Hunts., and of Nassaborough, Northants., and from Maxey, Ashton, Nunton and Pilsgate in Barnack, Northants.; with stock at Yaxley, Hunts.
Charter information
| Sawyer |
1448 |
| Birch |
1128 |
| Kemble |
--- |
| British Academy |
--- |
| Source Used |
Birch |
| Archive(s) |
Peterborough |
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Source Information
| Language |
Old English |
| Scholarly Source Dating |
963 |
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Notes
PN Hunts., pp. 185, 191; Robertson, Charters, pp. 325-30; Hart, ECEE, no. 13, authentic; King 1973, p. 7; Hart, ECNE, no. 7, authentic, dates c. 971 x 984, cf. p. 326; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 46; Kennedy 1995, p. 138 n. 28; Pelteret 1995, pp. 169, 323, on details of terminology.
Translation(s)
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Editor |
Article or Book Title |
Journal or Pub.Loc. |
Date |
pp. |
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Robertson, Agnes Jane |
Anglo-Saxon Charters
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Cambridge, MA
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1956 |
72-5 [no.39] |
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Event/Transaction List
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Factoid Type |
Source Reference |
Short Description |
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Event |
S1448 |
These were the sureties when Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 and Bishop Ealdwulf 18 gave Æthelstan 36 and Ælfwald 29 the final penny for the estates at Yaxley and Farcet on behalf of Peterborough 1 |
| 2 |
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Transaction |
S1448 |
Bishop Æthelwold 1 recorded the following gifts to Peterborough 1: a gospel adorned with silver, and 3 crosses likewise adorned with silver, 2 silver candlesticks and 2 covered with god, and 1 silver censer and 1 made of brass and 1 silver water sexxel and 2 silver bells and 4 silver chalices, 4 patens and a silver tube and 6 chasubles and 4 copes and 1 upper garment and 8 stoles, the same number of maniples and 11 subuculas and 21 epistle vestments and 3 corporals and 3 offertory cloths and 19 albs and 4 cloaks and 2 black robes and 6 wall curtains and 9 seat covers and 10 hanging bells, 7 hand bells and 4 bed covers and 6 horns - 4 of them decorated - and 8 silver cups and 2 gilded altar-cloths. And the number of books is 21 which Bishop Æthelwold 1 gave to Peterborough 1, namely 'Beda in Marcum . Liber miraculorum . Expositio Hebreorum nominum . Prouisio futurarum rerum . Augustinus de achademicis . Vita sancti Felicis metrice . Sinonima Isidori . Vita Eustachii . Descidia Parisiace polis . Medicinalis . De duodecim abusiuis . Sermo super quosdam psalmos . Commentum cantica canticorum . De eucharistia . Commentum Martiani . Alchimi Auiti . Liber differentiarum . Cilicius Ciprianus . De litteris Grecorum . Liber bestiarum'. The estates he granted were Medeshamstede and the berewicks pertaining to it; Anlafestun, and the berewicks pertaining to it; Farcet with 16 able-bodied men and 8 young men; half of Whittlesey Mere; Oundle and the berewicks pertaining to it; Kettering; the fens at Well which he bought from Ælfsige 50 and Ufi 1 for 13 ores. |
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Transaction |
S1448 |
Bishop Æthelwold 1 from Ælfsige 50 and Ufi 1; purchase of the fens at Well for 13 ores |
| 4 |
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Transaction |
S1448 |
Bishop Æthelwold 1 from Ælfsige 50 and Ufi 1; purchase of the fens at Well for 13 ores |
| 5 |
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Transaction |
S1448 |
Ealdorman Æthelwine 2 and Bishop Ealdwulf 18 gave Æthelstan 36 and Ælfwald 29 the final penny for the estates at Yaxley and Farcet on behalf of Peterborough 1 |
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