Reigns of Edmund and Eadred

nos. 95-105


Charters of King Edmund (939-46)

[95] S 464 (BCS 753) King Edmund (940): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 62 (BMFacs.iii.10), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S464 face S464 dorse

Written by 'Æthelstan C'; the last six witnesses were added by a different scribe. Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 2). Keynes, Diplomas, p. 45.

[96] S 470 (BCS 748) King Edmund (940): Winchester College, Muniment Room, no. 2 (OSFacs. ii. Winchester College 3), from the New Minster, Winchester.

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Apparently written in three stages: text and bounds; dating clause and column of the word Ego; names of the witnesses (in darker ink). Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 8). <Irregular pricking all over.>

[97] S 512 (BCS 780) King Edmund (943): BL Stowe Charter 24 (OSFacs. iii.25), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S512 face S512 dorse

Written by 'Æthelstan C'; boundary clause inserted in space originally left blank. Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 2). <Check in BL.>

[98] S 495 (BCS 792) King Edmund (944): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 63 (BMFacs.iii.11), from Evesham.

S495 face S495 dorse

Keynes, Diplomas, p. 24. Dumville 1987, pp. 173-4. <Check in BL: different hand in line 5, or just form of display script in place-names? Assessment tampered with?>

[99] S 497 (BCS 791) King Edmund (944): BL Stowe Charter 25 (OSFacs. iii.26), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S497 face S497 dorse

Written by 'Edmund C'; step in upper right corner, from wrapping-tie. Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 3), scribe also wrote inscription recording King Æthelstan's gift of BL Cotton Tiberius A. ii to Christ Church, Canterbury. Keynes 1985, pp. 147-53.

[100] S 510 (BCS 813) King Edmund (946): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 73 (BMFacs.iii.12), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S510 face S510 dorse

Written by 'Edmund C'. Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 3).


Charters of King Eadred (946-55)

[101] S 528 (BCS 820) King Eadred (947): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 83 (BMFacs.iii.13), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S528 face S528 dorse

Written by 'Edmund C'; a section of text which should have occurred between the sanction and the bounds was originally omitted, and has been added on the dorse by the main scribe. Chaplais 1965, pp. 149-50 (scribe 3).

[102] S 535 (BCS 869) King Eadred (948): BL Stowe Charter 26 (OSFacs. iii.27), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

S535 face S535 dorse

Written by 'Edmund C'; boundary clause, and record of payment, inserted by main scribe in space originally left blank. Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 3).

[103] S 546, MS. 1 (BCS 880) King Eadred (949): Canterbury, D. & C., Red Book no. 14 (OSFacs. i.15), from Christ Church, Canterbury.

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<Reculver charter, allegedly written by Dunstan himself.> Chaplais 1966, p. 164: ? original, written at Glastonbury. Chaplais 1968, p. 316: punctuation by Dunstan. Brooks, Church of Canterbury, pp. 232-6. Lapidge 1988, pp. 91-2. Brooks 1992: original. See also [197]. <Check in OSF. Anomalous layout; boundary clause added on dorse by a different hand, s. xi1; all original, according to Brooks. Ref. to various discussions in Dunstan book. DND: s. xex.>

[104] S 552 (BCS 877) King Eadred (949): BL Cotton Augustus ii. 44 (BMFacs.iii.16), from Abingdon.

S552 face S552 dorse

Written by 'Edmund C'; boundary clause possibly inserted after writing of the main text. Chaplais 1965, pp. 59-60 (scribe 3). <ASE 5, p. 162, script of boundary clause likened to Tanner 10, fols. 105-14; ASE 5, p. 167, script likened to second hand of Alfred's law-code in CCCC 173.>

[105] S 563 (BCS 903) King Eadred (955): Longleat House, Muniments 10565 (OSFacs. ii. Marquess of Bath 2), from Glastonbury.

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An original charter of the 'Dunstan B' type, quite different in appearance from other originals of the period; amount of payment possibly an insertion. Chaplais 1966, p. 163: script likened to that in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Hatton 30 (Glastonbury).