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ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS

Published facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon charters

Facsimiles of all charters surviving in single-sheet form have been published in one or other of the following works:

• Facsimiles of Ancient Charters in the British Museum, ed. E. A. Bond, 4 vols. (London, 1873-8), including:
  • the collection formed by Sir Robert Cotton (1571-1631), from the archives of Christ Church, Canterbury, Abingdon, etc. (BL Cotton Augustus ii)
  • later arrivals in the Cotton collection, from the archives of the Old Minster, Winchester, Rochester cathedral, etc. (BL Cotton Charters)
  • the collection formed by Sir Simonds D'Ewes (1602-50), from the archives of the Old Minster, Winchester, Bury St Edmunds, etc., which passed subsequently into the hands of Robert Harley, Lord Oxford (BL Harley Charters 43 C 1-8)
  • the collection formed by Sir Christopher, Lord Hatton (c.1605-70), from the archives of Worcester cathedral (BL Add. Charters 19788-19802)
  • the collection formed by Sir Robert Harley, Lord Oxford (1661-1724), including the D'Ewes charters (above), with others from Worcester (BL Harley Charters 83 A 1-3)
    
• Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, ed. W. B. Sanders, 3 vols. (Ordnance Survey: Southampton, 1878-84), including:
  • charters which remain at Canterbury cathedral (vol. I)
  • charters which remain at Westminster abbey, Exeter cathedral, Wells cathedral, Winchester cathedral, Worcester cathedral, and in various other archives (vol. II)
  • the collection formed by Sir Edward Dering (1598-1644), liberated in the 1620s from the archives of Christ Church, Canterbury, which passed subsequently into the hands of Thomas Astle (1735-1803), supplemented by other charters, now among the Stowe Charters in the British Library, with two charters from the muniments of the Marquess of Anglesey (ex Burton abbey), now in Burton-on-Trent Museum (vol. III)
    
• Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Charters, ed. Simon Keynes, Anglo-Saxon Charters Supplementary Series 1 (Oxford, 1991), including:
  • the Oslac charter, from the archives of Chichester cathedral
  • a group of charters from the archives of Burton abbey, now in the William Salt Library, Stafford
  • a collection of charters formed in the eighteenth century, from various archives, by Peter Le Neve (1661-1729), Gustavus Brander (1720-87), and Robert Austen (1740-97), which passed subsequently into the hands of W. H. Crawford, and which was acquired in 1891, after Crawford's death, by the Bodleian Library
    

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