CHARTERS WRITTEN IN THE TENTH OR ELEVENTH CENTURY

Copies or forgeries: nos. 184-220

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

[184] S 360 (BCS 596) King Edward (900) Winchester College, Muniment Room, no. 1 (OSFacs. ii. Winchester College 1), from the New Minster, Winchester.

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s. xi1. Brooks 1982. [Note irregular pricking around outer edge, as in other NMW charters; perhaps for some form of later protection.]

[185] S 376 (BCS 620) King Edward (909) BL Harley Charter 43. C. 1 (BMFacs. iv.10), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

S376 face S376 dorse

s. xi1. [ASE 5, p. 171 n. 1: script likened to annals 973-1001 in Parker Chronicle]

King Æthelstan

[186] S 386 (BCS 724) King Æthelstan ('670') Exeter, D. & C., 2519 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 2), from Exeter.

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s. xi; scribe also wrote S 387 [000], S 389, MS. 1 [000] and S 433, MS. 3 [000]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 1.

[187] S 387 (BCS 726) King Æthelstan ('670') BL Add. Charter 19516 (BMFacs. iii.7), from Exeter.

S387 face S387 dorse

s. xi, replica of S 386; scribe also wrote S 386 [000], S 389, MS. 1 [000] and S 433, MS. 3 [000]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 2. [See DND.]

[188] S 388 (BCS 725) King Æthelstan ('670') Exeter, D. & C., 2518 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 3), from Exeter.

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s. xi, replica of S 433, MS. 3 [000]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 11. [See DND.]

[189] S 389, MS. 1 (BCS 723) King Æthelstan ('670') Exeter, D. & C., 2517 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 1), from Exeter.

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s. xi; scribe also wrote S 386 [000], S 387 [000] and S 433, MS. 3 [000]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 3.

[190] S 405 (BCS 1343; Crawford Charters, no. 4) King Æthelstan (930) Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. III (BAFacs. 27), from Exeter (ex Crediton).

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s. x/xi (imitative script, modelled on a charter written by 'Æthelstan A'). Chaplais 1981b, no. 9. See also S 1387 [000].

[191] S 421 (BCS 694) King Æthelstan (933) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 31 (BMFacs. iii.4), from Exeter (ex Crediton).

S421 face S421 dorse

s. x2. Step from wrapping-tie. Chaplais 1981b, no. 10.

[192] S 433, MS. 3 (BCS 722) King Æthelstan ('670') Stafford, William Salt Library, S. MS. 7 (OSFacs. ii. Salt), stray from Exeter.

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s. xi (imitative script); scribe also wrote S 386 [186], S 387 [187] and S 389, MS. 1 [189]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 4.

[193] S 433, MS. 2 (BCS 722) King Æthelstan ('670') Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. T 37 (BAFacs. 30), stray from Exeter.

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s. ximed; scribe also wrote S 255, MS. 1 [178]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 5. [S 433, MSS. 1-3 in different types of script.]

[194] S 433, MS. 1 (BCS 721) King Æthelstan (937) Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 13 (OSFacs. i.14), stray from Exeter.

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s. ximed. Chaplais 1981b, no. 6.

[195] S 443 (BCS 727) King Æthelstan (938) BL Cotton Charter viii. 17 (BMFacs. iii.6), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

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s. xi. [Check in BL: large open letters TANTUN on dorse, as well as ordinary endorsement.]

King Eadred

[196] S 540 (BCS 862) King Eadred (948) BL Cotton Charter viii. 11 (BMFacs. iii.14), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

S540 face S540 dorse

s. xi (modelled on a charter written by 'Edmund C'; cf. S 497 [000], 528 [000] and 552 [000]).

[197] S 546, MS. 2 (BCS 880) King Eadred (949) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 57 (BMFacs. iii.15), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S546 face S546 dorse

s. xi; 'facsimile' of S 546, MS. 1 [103]. Chaplais 1966, p. 164; Lapidge 1988, pp. 91-2.

[198] S 553 (BCS 887) King Eadred (950) Taunton, Somerset Record Office, DD/CC 111489 (BAFacs. 32), from Glastonbury.

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s. xi/xii.

King Eadwig

[199] S 587 (BCS 945) King Eadwig (956, Group 4) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 33 (BMFacs. iii.17), from Abingdon.

S587 face S587 dorse

s. x/xi. [Keynes, Diplomas, p. 68 n. 133. Vertical format.]

[200] S 623 (BCS 978; Sawyer, Burton, no. 14) King Eadwig (956, Group 3) Burton-on-Trent Museum, Burton Muniment 2 (OSFacs. iii. Anglesey 1), from Burton.

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s. xi.

King Edgar

[201] S 669 (BCS 1103) King Edgar ('951', ? for 961) Exeter, D. & C., 2520 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 4), from Exeter.

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s. xi. Chaplais 1981b, no. 7.

[202] S 670 (BCS 1048) King Edgar ('951', ? for 959) London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. V (OSFacs. ii. Westminster 4), from Westminster.

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? s. xex; cf. S 1450, MS. 1 [000], and 1451 [000]. Anomalous in various respects; step may be from wrapping-tie, or the parchment may have been cut to the written area, as if to prevent any addition (cf. S 1522 [253], also from Westminster). Brooks 1992, p. 000: original; witnesses cut off in attempt to make it appear that charter had once been sealed. [Check NPB.]

[203] S 671 (BCS 1295; Campbell, Rochester, no. 29) King Edgar ('955') BL Cotton Charter viii. 33 (BMFacs. iii.26), from Rochester.

S671 face S671 dorse

A forgery produced at Rochester, probably in the early 980s, in connection with a dispute over land at Bromley (cf. S 1457); s. xex (imitative script). A sentence giving details of appurtenant woodland was inserted as an afterthought between the sanction and the boundary clause, possibly by a different hand; cf. S 893 (dated 998). The charter is comparable in certain respects with S 280 [179], forged at Rochester at about the same time. [Check in BL. Latin introduction to boundary clause is part of the addition, but seems to be in main hand.]

[204] S 738 (BCS 1176) King Edgar (966) BL Harley Charter 43. C. 5 (BMFacs. iii.27), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

S738 face S738 dorse

s. xi (imitative script).

[205] S 753 (BCS 1198) King Edgar ('967') London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. VII (OSFacs. ii. Westminster 8), from Westminster.

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s. x2.

[206] S 755 (BCS 1197) King Edgar (967) Exeter, D. & C., 2521 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 6), from Exeter.

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s. xi2; scribe also wrote S 770 and S 832. Chaplais 1981b, no. 13. [cf. S 774 for use of capitals in w-list.]

[207] S 770 (BCS 1231) King Edgar (969) Exeter, D. & C., 2521 dorse (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 6 dorse), from Exeter.

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s. xi2; scribe also wrote S 755 and S 832. Chaplais 1981b, no. 14.

[208] S 786 (BCS 1282) King Edgar (972) BL Cotton Augustus ii. 6 (BMFacs. iii.30), from Worcester (ex Pershore).

S786 face S786 dorse

s. x/xi.

[209] S 794 (BCS 1305) King Edgar (974) Cambridge, University Library, EDC 1B/1A (BAFacs. 25), from Ely.

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s. xi2.

[210] S 801 (BCS 1312) King Edgar (975) BL Harley Charter 43. C. 6 (BMFacs. iii.31), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

S801 face S801 dorse

? s. xi1 (probably imitative). [check in BL: part of dorse written in 'capitals'. Cf. S 738, dorse, for 'large letters'? ? adaptation of a grant to a layman.]

King Edward the Martyr

[211] S 832 (Davidson 1883) King Edward (977) Exeter, D. & C., 2527 dorse (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 14 dorse), from Exeter.

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s. xi2; scribe also wrote S 755 [000] and S 770 [000]. Chaplais 1981b, no. 17. [On dorse of S 1027 [000], forged for same group of estates.]

King Æthelred the Unready

[212] S 879 (Sawyer, Burton, no. 26) King Æthelred (996) Stafford, William Salt Library, 84/3/41 (BAFacs. 26), from Burton.

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s. xi2.

[213] S 906 (Sawyer, Burton, no. 28) King Æthelred (1004) Burton-on-Trent Museum, Burton Muniment 1 (OSFacs. iii. Anglesey 2), from Burton.

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s. xi2. See also S 1536 [000].

King Cnut

[214] S 951 (KCD 728) King Cnut (1018) Exeter, D. & C., 2524 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 9), from Exeter.

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s. xi2. Chaplais 1981b, no. 21.

[215] S 953 (OSFacs.) King Cnut (1018) Exeter, D. & C., 2071 (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 10), from Exeter.

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s. xi2; scribe also appears in manuscripts from Exeter. Chaplais 1981b, no. 22. [No crosses in witness-list.]

[216] S 959, MS. 21 (KCD 737) King Cnut (1023) Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 16 (OSFacs. i.19), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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s. xi2. Vernacular version of charter; cf. S 959, MSS. 1 [000], 2 [000], 3 [000] and 4 [000], for Latin versions.

[217] S 971, MS. 2 (Davidson 1883) ? King Cnut Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. C 1311 (BAFacs. 31), stray from Exeter.

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s. xi2. Chaplais 1981b, no. 23.

[218] S 980, MS. 1 (KCD 735) King Cnut (1021 x 1023) King's Lynn, Borough Council, KL/C2/61 (BAFacs. 33), from Bury St Edmunds.

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s. xi/xii.

[219] S 981 (Robertson, Charters, no. 85) King Cnut BL Stowe Charter 40 (OSFacs. iii.41), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S981 face S981 dorse

s. xiex. [English and Latin on top of each other.]

King Edward the Confessor

[220] S 1027 (Davidson 1883) King Edward (1059) Exeter, D. & C., 2527 face (OSFacs. ii. Exeter 14 face), from Exeter.

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Chaplais 1981b, no. 25. s. xi2. S 832 [000] on dorse.