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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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