GUILD REGULATIONS AND MANUMISSIONS
<Introductory remarks. For post-Conquest regulations from Exeter contexts, see Pelteret, nos. 120-34. References below not yet complete. Manumissions, in Kemble, Saxons, i. 496-10. Cf. Toronto Plan, under 16 (Records). Add refs. to Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter (1993); D. Hooke, Pre-Conquest Charter-Bounds of Devon and Cornwall (1994); David Pelteret, Slavery in Early Mediaeval England (1995), esp. pp. xiii-xvi and 131-63.>
GUILD REGULATIONS
GR1
s. x1. Regulations of a guild at (Great) Bedwyn, Wilts.
English.
MS.: Bern, Burgerbibliothek 671, fos 75v-76 (s. x1)
Printed: Meritt 1934, pp. 344-5, with translation; Förster 1941,
pp. 791-2.
Translated: Whitelock 1955, no. 138.
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 4-5 (no. 6), art. b; Rosser 1988;
Dumville, Wessex and England, pp. 81-2.
GR2
s. x1. Regulations of a guild at Exeter, Devon. English.
MS.: BL, Cotton Tib. B. v, pt 1, fo. 75 (s. x1)
Printed: Thorpe, pp. 613-14, with translation; Conner, Anglo-Saxon
Exeter, pp. 168-9 (no. II), with translation.
Translated: Kemble, Saxons in England, i. 512-13; Whitelock 1955, no.
137.
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 256-7 (no. 194), art. b; Rosser 1988;
Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter, pp. 165-70.
GR3
s. x/xi. Regulations of the thegns' guild at Cambridge.
English.
MSS: 1. BL, Cotton Tib. B. v, pt 1, fo. 74rv (s. x/xi)
2. Bodleian, Twyne 2, fo. 82 (s. xvii)
Printed: Hickes, Diss. Epist., pp. 20-1; Thorpe, pp. 610-13, with
translation.
Translated: Kemble, Saxons in England, i. 513-14; Whitelock 1955, no.
136.
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 35-6 (no. 22), art. c; Rosser 1988.
GR4
s. ximed. Regulations of Orc's guild at Abbotsbury, Dorset.
English.
MS.: Dorchester, Dorset Record Office, Fox-Strangways archive [D.124]
(s. ximed.; O.S. Facs., ii. Ilchester 4)
Printed: K 942; Mon. Angl. i. 277-8; O.S. Facs., ii. Ilchester 4,
with translation; Thorpe, pp. 605-8, with translation.
Translated: Kemble, Saxons in England, i. 511-12; Whitelock 1955, no.
139.
Comments: Finberg 1964, no. 624; Rosser 1988; Keynes 1989, p. 208.
MANUMISSIONS
M1
A.D. 924 or 925. Manumission at the court of King
Æthelstan. English.
MS.: BL Royal 1. B. VII, fo. 15v (s. x1; Keynes 1985, pl. XI)
Printed: B 639; Thorpe, p. 622, with translation; Harmer 1914, pp.
32-3 (no. 19), with translation, p. 63; Keynes 1985, p. 185, with
translation.
Translated: Whitelock 1955, no. 140.
Comments: Harmer 1914, p. 116; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 316-17 (no. 246);
Keynes 1985, pp. 185-9; Dumville, Wessex and England, pp. 93-4;
Pelteret, no. 1.1.
M2
s. x. Manumissions at Great Bedwyn, Wiltshire. English.
MS.: Bern, Burgerbibliothek 671, fo. 76v (s. x)
Printed: Merritt 1934, p. 346; Förster 1941, pp. 794-5.
Comments: Meritt 1934; Förster 1941, pp. 788-95; Ker, Catalogue,
pp. 4-5 (no. 6), art. c; Parkes 1983, p. 137, n. 51, in same hand as
Wulfgar's will (no. 1533); Dumville, Wessex and England, pp. 81-2
(with pl. I); Pelteret, no. 2.1-2.
M3
s. x-xi. Manumissions at Bodmin, Cornwall. Latin and
English.
MS.: 1. BL Add. 9381, fos <0, 00, 000> (s. x-xi)
2. Bodleian, James 29, p. 31 (s. xvii), from MS. 1
Printed: K 981; HS, pp. 676-83; Thorpe, pp. 623-31, with translation;
Earle, pp. 271-5; Förster 1930, pp. 83-99.
Translated: Whitelock 1955, nos. 141-8 (selection).
Comments: Förster 1930; Ker, Catalogue, p. 159 (no. 126); Keynes
1994/0, p. 69; Pelteret, no. 3.1-51. <Pelteret nos. 87-9.>
M4
s. x2, xi1. Manumissions at Exeter, Devon. English.
MS.: BL Cotton Tib. B. v, pt 1, fo. 75 (s. x2, xi1)
Printed: K 1353; Thorpe, p. 623, with translation (King Eadwig's
manumission); Conner, Anglo-Saxon Exeter, pp. 168 (no. I) and 170
(no. IV), with translation.
Translated: Whitelock 1955, no. 149 (King Eadwig's manumission).
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 256-7 (no. 194), arts. a and c; Conner,
Anglo-Saxon Exeter, pp. 165-70; Pelteret, no. 4.1-2. <See Ker for
plates.>
M5
s. xi. Manumissions at Exeter and at Tavistock, Devon. English.
MS.: Bodleian, Bodley 579, fos <8, 00> (s. x or xi)
Printed: B 1245-53; HS, pp. 688-91; Thorpe, pp. 638-40, with
translation; Earle, pp. 253-7; Warren, Leofric Missal, pp. 1,
5-6.
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 378-9 (no. 315), arts. c-e; Conner,
Anglo-Saxon Exeter, p. 25, n. 19 (made by Ealdorman Ordgar (I),
founder of Tavistock, in the tenth century); Hooke, Pre-Conquest
Charter-Bounds of Devon and Cornwall, p. 226; Pelteret, no. 5.1-16.
M6
s. ximed. Manumission at Durham. English.
MS.: BL Cotton Domitian vii (Liber Vitae), fo. 47 (s. ximed.)
Printed: B 1254; K 925; Thorpe, p. 621, with translation; Earle, p.
275.
Translated: Whitelock 1955, no. 150.
Comments: Craster 1925, p. 189; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 186-7 (no. 147),
art. a; Pelteret, no. 6.1-2.
M7
s. xi. Manumissions at Durham. English.
MS.: 1. [Cotton Otho B. ix]
2. Bodleian, James 18, pp. 42-4 (s. xvii), ex MS. 1
Printed: Craster 1925, pp. 190-1, with translation.
Comments: Wanley; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 223-4 (no. 176); Keynes 1985,
pp. 170-9; Pelteret, no. 7.1-4..
M8
s. xi2. Manumissions at Bath, Somerset.
MS.: 1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS. 140, fo. 1, and MS.
111, p. 8 (s. xi2-xii)
2. BL Add. 4559 (s. xvii/xviii), from MS. 1
Printed: K 933-7; Thorpe, pp. 640-4, with translation; Earle, pp.
268-71.
Comment: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 47-9 (no. 35), arts. 2 and 8. The
majority of the manumissions are post-Conquest, and are duly covered
by Pelteret, nos. 73-85; of the three not in Pelteret (printed by
Thorpe, p. 643, and by Earle, p. 271, nos. 12, 9 and 10), the first
refers to Abbot Sewold and the second and third to Abbot Ælfwig
(not Ælfsige, as printed); Pelteret, no. 8.1-15.
M9
s. xi-xii. Manumissions at Exeter, Devon. Latin and English.
MS.: Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 2. 11, with Exeter Cathedral
3501 (s. xi-xii)
Printed: Thorpe, pp. 622, 631-8, with translation; Earle, pp. 257-64;
Dickins 1950, pp. 363-7.
Comments: Ker, Catalogue, pp. 28-31 (no. 20), arts. 5, 11, 13;
Pelteret, no. 9.1-24. <All presumably covered by Pelteret nos.
93-102, et seq.>