CHARTERS WRITTEN IN THE TENTH OR ELEVENTH CENTURY

Copies or forgeries: nos. 162-83

The charters assigned to this category are listed below in order of the number of the document in Professor Sawyer's catalogue.

Seventh and eighth centuries

[162] S 22 (BCS 91) Council of Bapchild (699 x 716), with confirmation at Council of Clofesho (716) BL Stowe Charter 2 (OSFacs. iii.2), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S22 face S22 dorse

s. xi1; written by Eadui Basan (see under S 950 [144]). [Bishop, ECM, p. 22. Classic specimen of Anglo-Caroline minuscule, Style IV]

[163] S 43 (BCS 144; Roper, et al., Selsey, no. 4) Nunna, king of the South Saxons ('775', for 705 x 714) Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Cap. I/17/1 (BAFacs. 23), from Selsey.

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s. x or xi (imitative script).

[164] S 67 (BCS 32) Wulfhere, king of Mercia ('624', ? for 674) BL Add. Charter 19788 (BMFacs. iv.1), from Worcester.

S67 face S67 dorse

s. x or xi (imitative script). [See DND. Estate connected with Ramsey abbey.]

Offa, king of the Mercians

[165] S 110 (BCS 213) Offa, king of the English (774) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 99 (BMFacs. iv.4), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S110 face S110 dorse

s. x; scribe also wrote S 230 [176]. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 319.

[166] S 111 (BCS 214) Offa, king of the English (774) BL Stowe Charter 4 (OSFacs. iii.4), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S111 face S111 dorse

s. x; scribe also wrote S 168, MS. 2 [173], and perhaps the bounds added to S 367 [89]. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 320.

[167] S 117, MS. 1 (BCS 234) Offa, king of Mercia ('730', for 780) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 30 (BMFacs. i.11), from Worcester.

S117 face S117 dorse

s. xi (imitative script). There was another single-sheet copy of the charter (S 117, MS. 2 (Somers Charter 5)); also not contemporary with the given date (according to Wanley), and differing from MS. 1 in significant details (to judge from Smith's text).

[168] S 124, MS. 1 (BCS 245) Offa, king of Mercia (785) London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. II (OSFacs. ii. Westminster 2, no. 1), from Westminster.

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? s. xi (imitative script). See also S 124, MS. 2 [295].

[169] S 125 (BCS 248) Offa, king of Mercia (786) BL Stowe Charter 6 (OSFacs. iii.6), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S125 face S125 dorse

s. xi (face written in Anglo-Caroline minuscule (Latin text) and in Insular minuscule (vernacular); dorse written in script imitative of a ? s. ix exemplar, used for witness-list). [Check.]

[170] S 132 (BCS 265) Offa, king of the English ('790', for ? 795) (OSFacs. i.3), from Christ Church, Canterbury. s. x. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 320-1. (Hybrid or imitative script.)

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s. x. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 320-1. (Hybrid or imitative script.)

Coenwulf, king of the Mercians

[171] S 156 (BCS 296) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (799) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 96 (BMFacs. iv.7), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S156 face S156 dorse

s. x or xi (imitative). [Check Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 102-3.]

Ninth century (Mercian / Kentish)

[172] - - (BCS 312) Council of Clofesho (803) Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 5 (OSFacs. i.5), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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s. xi. Later copy of [26].

[173] S 168, MS. 2 (BCS 335) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (811) BL Stowe Charter 10 (OSFacs. iii.10), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S168~2 face S168~2 dorse

s. x; scribe also wrote S 111 [166]. A copy of S 168, MS. 1 [36], incorporating an additional passage granting of land in Romney Marsh (with Latin bounds) and at Elmstead (with vernacular bounds). [DND: scribe also wrote bounds in S 367? Not very likely.]

[174] S 175, MS. 1 (BCS 346) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (814) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 77 (BMFacs. ii.12), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S175~1 face S175~1 dorse

? s. x (imitative script).

[175] S 175, MS. 2 (BCS 346) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (814) BL Stowe Charter 11 (OSFacs. iii.11), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S1752 face S1752 dorse

? s. x (imitative script).

[176] S 230 (BCS 50) King Cædwalla ('680', for ? 685) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 86 (BMFacs. iv.2), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S230 face S230 dorse

s. x; scribe also wrote S 110 [165]. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 240-3 and 317. [Endorsed + PACCANHAMM in large capitals.]

West Saxon / Kentish charters

[177] S 236 (BCS 61) King Baldred (681) Longleat House, Muniment 10564 (OSFacs. ii. Marquess of Bath 1), from Glastonbury.

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? s. x (imitative script). [DND: primitive Square minuscule of the early tenth century.]

[178] S 255, MS. 1 (BCS 1331; Crawford Charters, no. 1) King Æthelheard (739) Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. I (BAFacs. 29), from Exeter.

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s. xi2; scribe also wrote S 433, MS. 2. Chaplais 1981b, no. 8.

[179] S 280 (BCS 418; Campbell, Rochester, no. 19) King Egbert (838) BL Cotton Charter viii. 30 (BMFacs. iv.8), from Rochester.

S280 face S280 dorse

A forgery produced at Rochester, s. xex, in connection with a dispute (cf. S 1456); comparable in certain respects with S 671 [203], from the same archive. [Order of witnesses garbled by Campbell. Palimpsest, or offset?]

[180] S 282 (BCS 396) Egbert, king of Wessex and Kent ('845', for 830) Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 7 (OSFacs. i.7), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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? s. xi (imitative script).

[181] S 308 (BCS 469) Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (854) BL Cotton Charter viii. 35 (BMFacs. ii.32), of uncertain provenance.

S308 face S308 dorse

? s. xi (imitative script, based to some extent on a ninth-century exemplar).

[182] S 313 (Robertson, Charters, no. 8) Æthelwulf, king of Wessex (854) Edinburgh, University Library, Laing Charter 18 (BAFacs. 24), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

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s. xi. Upper part of chirograph (CYRO GRA PHVM). In English.

[183] S 319 (BCS 538) Æthelwulf, king of Wessex and Kent ('874', ? for 844), with confirmation by Archbishop Æthelred (870 x 888) and endorsement by Liofric BL Stowe Charter 21 (OSFacs. iii.21), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S319 face S319 dorse

s. xi1. Written by a single scribe, extending from face to dorse; probably Eadui Basan (see S 950 [144]). Bishop 1959, p. 94, n. 2: scribe also appears in BL Royal 6. C. I, from the library of St Augustine's, Canterbury.