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ANGLO-SAXON CHARTERS

Note on recently-discovered charters

Entries for the texts of charters which have come to light since 1968 have been incorporated at the appropriate point in the main numerical series, with the suffix 'a', 'b', 'c', etc. The principal examples are as follows:

• A charter of King Edgar (? from Burton abbey)
  S 712a. See N. P. Brooks, et al., 'A New Charter of King Edgar', Anglo-Saxon England 13 (1984), pp. 137-55.
• Charters of Barking abbey
  S 65a (King Swæfred), 65b (King Swæfred), 418a (King Æthelstan), 517a (King Eadred), 517b (King Eadred), 522a (King Eadred), 552a (King Eadred), 931a (King Æthelred), 931b (King Æthelred). See K. N. Bascombe, 'Two Charters of King Suebred of Essex', An Essex Tribute: Essays presented to Frederick G. Emmison, ed. Kenneth Neale (London, 1987), pp. 85-96.
• Charters of Abbotsbury abbey (incomplete)
  S 1602a (King Eadwig), 1602b (King Edgar), 1602c (King Æthelred), 1602d (King Cnut), 1602e (King Cnut), 1602f (fragment of a chirograph), 1602g (King Edward the Confessor). See S. Keynes, 'The Lost Cartulary of Abbotsbury Abbey', Anglo-Saxon England 18 (1989), pp. 209-43.
• Charters of St Albans abbey
  Vernacular section in S 136; S 136a (King Offa); vernacular boundary-clauses for S 151, 888, 900, and 912; original vernacular texts of S 1228 (Æthelwine niger), 1235 (Oswulf and Æthelgyth), 1425 (Abbot Leofstan), 1517 (will of Eadwine of Caddington), and 1532 (will of Wulf); version of S 1801d (King Edmund). See S. Keynes, 'A Lost Cartulary of St Albans Abbey', Anglo-Saxon England 22 (1993), pp. 253-79; S. Keynes, 'The Will of Wulf', Old English Newsletter 26.3 (1993), pp. 16-21; Pamela Taylor, 'Boundaries and Margins: Barnet, Finchley and Totteridge', Medieval Ecclesiastical Studies in Honour of Dorothy M. Owen, ed. M. J. Franklin and Christopher Harper-Bill (Woodbridge, 1995), pp. 259-80, at 260-1; Pamela Taylor, 'The Early St Albans Endowment and its Chroniclers', Historical Research 68 (1995), pp. 119-42. For S 1425, see John Blair, Anglo-Saxon Oxfordshire (Stroud, 1994), pp. 107, 138-9, 154-5.
• Charters of St Paul's Cathedral
  S 103a (King Æthelbald), 367a (King Edward the Elder). See S. Keynes, 'A Charter of King Edward the Elder for Islington', Historical Research 66 (1993), pp. 303-16; S. E. Kelly, 'Trading Privileges from Eighth-Century England', Early Medieval Europe 1 (1992), pp. 3-28, at 27.
• Charters of Athelney Abbey
  S 342a (King Alfred), 343a (King Alfred), 879a (King Æthelred). See S. Keynes, 'George Harbin's Transcript of the Lost Cartulary of Athelney Abbey', Somerset Archaeology and Natural History 136 (1993 for 1992), pp. 149-59.
• A charter of King Edgar, from Coventry
  S 676a. See S. Keynes, 'The "Dunstan B" Charters', Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994), pp. 165-93, at 166-8.
• A charter of King Edgar, from Westminster abbey
  S 794a. See S. Keynes, 'The "Dunstan B" Charters', Anglo-Saxon England 23 (1994), pp. 165-93, at 168-72.

Several other charters, removed from their archival contexts, are known only from passing references or allusions made by one or other of the antiquaries and collectors active between the late sixteenth century and the late eighteenth century.

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