[25] S 106, dorse (BCS 201) Pilheard (? 801): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 26-7 (BMFacs. i.9; ChLA iii.186), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Added on the dorse of a charter of King Offa (S 106, face [15]), ostensibly at a church council at Chelsea. ChLA: original; the cross after King Cenwulf's (first) attestation may be autograph. (Check in BL. Confirmation of charters of Æthelbald and Offa.) |
[26] - - (BCS 312) Council of Clofesho (803): Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 4 (OSFacs. i.4), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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An act concerning the liberties of the Church; attested by bishops in association with their respective abbots, etc. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 359, n. 67: contemporary or nearly contemporary. For a s. xi copy, see [172]. |
[27] - - (BCS 310) Council of Clofesho (803): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 61 (BMFacs. ii.6), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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An act abolishing the archiepiscopate of Lichfield, and restoring primacy to Canterbury. Chaplais 1965, pp. 56-7: scribe also wrote S 293 [56]. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 359 n. 67: contemporary or nearly contemporary. The scribal identity between this charter and S 293 is questionable. |
[28] S 1259 (BCS 319) Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury (805): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 55 (BMFacs. i.13), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 158 and 359 n. 67: contemporary. Brown 1986, p. 129. (Note superfluous crosses.) |
[29] S 161 (BCS 321) Cenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent (805): BL Stowe Charter 9 (OSFacs. iii.9), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brown 1986, pp. 128-9. Making of England, ed. Webster and Backhouse, no. 167. |
[30] S 40 (BCS 322) Cuthred, king of Kent (805): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 87 (BMFacs. ii.8), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 359 n. 67: later copy. |
[31] S 41, MS. 1 (BCS 318) Cuthred, king of Kent (805 x 807): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 100 (BMFacs. ii.7), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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The scribe also wrote S 41, MS. 2 [32]. |
[32] S 41, MS. 2 (BCS 318) Cuthred, king of Kent (805 x 807), with S 1500 (Robertson, Charters, no. 3), will of Æthelnoth and Gænburg (805 x 832): BL Stowe Charter 8 (OSFacs. iii.8), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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The scribe also wrote S 41, MS. 1 [31]; a copy of MS. 1, augmented by S 1500 [79], a vernacular record relating to the disposal of the land in question. ChLA: scribe also wrote S 153 [34]. (Date of S 1500: 805 x ?824; depends on S 1266 [45].) |
[33] S 163 (BCS 326) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (808): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 98 (BMFacs. ii.9), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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A 'Kentish' charter, issued ostensibly from a meeting at Tamworth; cast in 'Canterbury' formulas, though the estate lies in the diocese of Rochester. The main text and the witness-list were written by the same scribe, but it is possible that the witness-list was added after folding; the attached slip of parchment is a scribal memorandum for the witness-list, apparently written by a different scribe. Parsons 1939, pp. 21-2. Chaplais 1968, p. 333. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 169-70. (Note crosses in margin. Lower of two endorsements is scribal memorandum for content; parchment used when blank?) |
[34] S 153 (BCS 289) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (798), and Ealdorman Oswulf (798 x 810): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 97 (BMFacs. i.12; ChLA iii.191), from Christ Church, Canterbury (ex Lyminge).
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The main text (lines 1-17, recording King Cenwulf's grant to Oswulf, dux and minister), the witness-list (lines 18-26), and the record of Oswulf's grant of the land to Lyminge (lines 27-37), were written by a single scribe. ChLA: contemporaneous, probably original (all written in 798); scribe also wrote S 41, MS. 2 [32]. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 360-1 (scribe 3). Brown 1986, p. 128. Crick 1988, pp. 263-4: forgery, s. ix1. |
[35] S 165 (BCS 339; Campbell, Rochester, no. 17) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (811): BL Cotton Charter viii. 31 (BMFacs. ii.10), from Rochester.
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Apparently produced in stages, by two contemporary scribes, s. ix1. The main text (lines 1-7) was written by the first; alterations over erasure (lines 2 and 4), and the addition of the names of six swine-pastures (lines 7-8), were written by the second; the witness-list (lines 9-15) was written by the first, after horizontal folding; and the dating clause (line 16) was written by the second. (Check in BL. Traces of offset?) |
[36] S 168, MS. 1 (BCS 335) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (811): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 10 (BMFacs. i.14), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 360-1 (scribe 1). Brown 1986, p. 128. S 168, MS. 2 [173] is an interpolated copy of the same charter, s. x. [Gap in endorsement.] |
[37] S 1264 (BCS 332) Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury (811): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 47 (BMFacs. ii.11), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brown 1986, p. 129 n. 38. (In stages? on dorse?) |
[38] S 169 (BCS 341) Cenwulf, king of Mercia, and Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury (812): Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 6 (OSFacs. i. 6), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brown 1986, p. 128-9: script likened to that in Paris, BN lat. 10861. |
[39] S 173 (BCS 343) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (814): BL Harley Charter 83. A. 1 (BMFacs. ii.14), from Worcester.
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An interesting instance of a Kentish charter preserved at Worcester: a note (s. xvii/xviii) on the dorse appears (under Ultra Violet) to read 'Given by Geo. Hickes, late Dean of Worcester'. |
[40] S 177 (BCS 348) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (814): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 74 (BMFacs. ii.13), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 360-1 (scribe 1). Brown 1986, pp. 128-9 (with Plate II). Making of England, ed. Webster and Backhouse, no. 169. |
[41] S 178 (BCS 353) Cenwulf, king of Mercia (815): BL Stowe Charter 12 (OSFacs. iii.12), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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A 'Kentish' charter, issued ostensibly from a Mercian royal estate. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 169: drafted in the formulae of the Worcester scriptorium. Brown 1986, p. 128-9 (with Plate III): script likened to that in Paris, BN lat. 10861. |
[42] S 1861 (BCS 364) [Cenwulf, king of Mercia] (796 x 821): BL Cotton Charter viii. 39 (BMFacs. iv.6; ChLA iii.196), of uncertain provenance, possibly Winchcombe.
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A rectangular fragment; the identity of the grantor, the beneficiary, and the place concerned are known only from a thirteenth-century endorsement. The printed texts in Kemble and Birch include part of a witness-list, said in ChLA to be 'missing' but just visible on the left-hand side of the dorse. ChLA: contemporaneous, possibly original. |
[43] S 186 (BCS 370) Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent (822): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 93 (BMFacs. ii.15), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 168, 170 and 360-1 (scribe 2, ? = Archbishop Wulfred). Brown 1986, pp. 128-9. [Stenton, Latin Charters, p. 4, on decline of Latin learning.] |
[44] S 187 (BCS 373) Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent (823): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 75 (BMFacs. ii.16), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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As Professor Brooks has observed, the endorsement is cast in the first person, and the scribe would thus appear to have been Archbishop Wulfred himself. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 168, 170 and 360-1 (scribe 2). Brown 1986, pp. 128-9. [Parsons, p. 26: note on dorse is scribal memorandum, written before folding.] |
[45] S 1266 (BCS 381) Wulfred, archbishop of Canterbury (824): BL Stowe Charter 13 (OSFacs. iii.13), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, p. 360 n. 67: contemporary or nearly contemporary. |
[46] S 1434 (BCS 378) Council of Clofesho (824): BL Stowe Charter 14 (OSFacs. iii.14), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Boundary clauses added on dorse (after folding) in different hand, s. ix; cf. S 1620, which relates to an endorsement, s. xi/xii. Brown 1986, pp. 128-9. [Check date of bounds.] |
[47] S 1436, MS. 1 (BCS 384) Council of Clofesho (825): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 78 (BMFacs. ii.18), from Christ Church, Canterbury.
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 322-3, and pp. 360-1 (scribe 3); scribe may also have written S 1436, MS. 2 [48]. [Parsons 1939, p. 19: witness-list written on separate occasion - but check in BL] |
[48] S 1436, MS. 2 (BCS 384) Council of Clofesho (825): BL Stowe Charter 15 (OSFacs. iii.15), from Christ Church, Canterbury (? ex Reculver).
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Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 322-3; possibly written by scribe of S 1436, MS. 1 [47]. Brown 1986, pp. 128-9. |