CHARTERS ON SINGLE SHEETS
WRITTEN IN THE TWELFTH CENTURY OR LATER

Medieval copies or forgeries: nos. 295-315

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

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s. xii. See also S 124, MS 1 [168]. [For scribe, cf. BAFacs. 37. Heslop on Dunstan's seal: written by same scribe.]

[296] S 209 (BCS 503) Burgred, king of Mercia (862) Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS. Charters, Gloucester b. 1 (OSFacs. ii. Bodleian), from Gloucester.

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s. xiv/xv.

[297] S 312 (BCS 477) �thelwulf, king of Wessex (854) Winchester, D. & C., Library Showcase (OSFacs. ii. Winchester 1), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

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s. xv1. A chirograph of sorts; S 804, MS. 1, and S 1013, MS. 1, were produced by the same scribe.

[298] S 349 (BCS 571) Alfred, king of Wessex (895) BL Cotton Charter viii.19 (BAFacs. 41), from Rochester.

S349 face S349 dorse

s. xiii.

[299] S 645 (BCS 994) King Eadwig (957) London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. IV (OSFacs. ii. Westminster 3), from Westminster.

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s. xii.

[300] S 731 (BCS 1135) King Edgar (964) BL Harley 7513 (BAFacs. 34), from Worcester.

S731 face S731 dorse

s. xiimed.

[301] S 774, MS.1 (Crawford Charters, no. 6) King Edgar (969) Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. IV (BAFacs. 37), from Westminster.

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s. xii; the same scribe produced S 1293, MS. 1, and several forged writs of Edward the Confessor.

[302] S 779 (BCS 1266, 1267) King Edgar (970) BL Stowe Charter 31 (OSFacs. iii.32), from Ely.

S779 face S779 dorse

s. xi/xii.

[303] S 959, MS. 2 (KCD 737) King Cnut (1023) Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 15 (OSFacs. i.20), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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s. xi/xii.

[304] S 959, MS. 4 (Crawford Charters, no. 12) King Cnut (1023) Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2, no. VIIIa (BAFacs. 34), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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s. xi/xii; a replica of S 959, MS. 2.

[305] S 959, MS. 1 (KCD 737) King Cnut (1023) Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 17 (OSFacs. i.21), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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s. xii1.

[306] S 959, MS. 3 (KCD 737) King Cnut (1023) BL Stowe Charter 39 (OSFacs. iii.40), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S959~3 face S959~3 dorse

s. xii1.

[307] S 1011 (KCD 779) King Edward the Confessor (1045) BL Cotton Augustus ii.58 (BMFacs. iv.30), from Westminster.

S1011 face S1011 dorse

s. xii1; Chaplais 1981c: copy of the (lost) pretended original of King Edward's 'Second Charter' for Westminster. Keynes 1988, pp. 198-9. [Might this be s. xi/xii? - looks earlier than S 1041 and 1043; in which case perhaps not forged by Osbert de Clare.]

[308] S 1026 (KCD 801) King Edward the Confessor (? 1065) London, College of Arms (BAFacs. 35), from Evesham.

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s. xi/xii.

[309] S 1033 (Rose Troup 1939) King Edward the Confessor (1061) Canterbury, D. & C., Chart. Ant. R. 51 (BAFacs. 42), of uncertain provenance.

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s. xiii1.

[310] S 1041, MS. 1 (KCD 825) King Edward the Confessor (1065) London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XX (OSFacs. ii. Westminster 18), from Westminster.

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s. xiimed. Chaplais 1981c: pretended original of King Edward's 'Third Charter' for Westminster, with an impression of the (forged) 'First Seal'; the same scribe also produced S 1043, MSS. 1 and 2. Keynes 1988, pp. 198-9. [The script-identity of S 1041, MS. 1, and S 1043, MSS. 1 and 2, is questionable.]

[311] S 1043, MS. 2 (KCD 824) King Edward the Confessor (1065) London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. XCV (BAFacs. 38), from Westminster.

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s. xii1. Chaplais 1981c: pretended original of King Edward's 'First Charter' for Westminster, with an impression of the (forged) 'First Seal'; the same scribe also produced S 1041, MS. 1, and S 1043, MS. 1. Keynes 1988, pp. 198-9. [The script-identity of S 1043, MS. 2, and S 1041 is questionable.]

[312] S 1043, MS. 1 (KCD 824) King Edward the Confessor (1065) BL Cotton Charter vi.2 (BAFacs. 39), from Westminster.

S1043 face S1043 dorse

s. xii1. Chaplais 1981c: copy of pretended original of King Edward's 'First Charter' for Westminster [311]; the same scribe also produced S 1041, MS. 1, and S 1043, MS. 2.

[313] S 1062 (Robertson, Charters, no. 118) King Edward the Confessor (1042 x 1065) BL Cotton Charter x.17 (BMFacs. iv.37), from the Old Minster, Winchester.

S1062 face S1062 dorse

s. xii; a seal was still attached to the writ, c. 1700.

[314] S 1293 (BCS 1050) Dunstan, bishop of London (959) London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. IX (OSFacs. ii. Westminster 5), from Westminster.

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s. xii1. Chaplais 1981c: same scribe wrote S 774, MS. 1, and several forged writs of Edward the Confessor. [Remark on Dunstan's seal. See Heslop in Dunstan volume.]

[315] S 1450, MS. 2 (BCS 1351) Record of the endowment of Westminster London, Westminster Abbey, W.A.M. VI (BAFacs. 36), from Westminster.

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s. xii.

S 1620: see under S 1434 [46].