A.D. 981 x 988. Archbishop (Dunstan) to King Æthelred; letter concerning estates belonging to the diocese of Cornwall including Pawton in St Breock, Cællwic, and Lawhitton, Cornwall. English

Archive:

Exeter (ex Crediton, ? ex St German's)

MSS:

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. XIV (s. x ex.; BA Facs., no. 8)

Printed:

Napier and Stevenson, pp. 18-19 (no. 7); Councils and Synods, no. 35 (II)

Translated:

Napier and Stevenson, pp. 106-7; Crediton 1913, pp. 192-3; Whitelock, EHD, no. 229 (pp. 892-4)

Comments:

Napier and Stevenson, pp. 102-10, authentic; Rundell 1913; Robinson 1918, p. 27, interpolated; Henderson 1925, p. 87, identified Cællwic with Kelly in Egloshayle; Sisam 1953, p. 124 n. 4; Finberg, ECDC, no. 94; Picken 1958, rejects identification of Cællwic with Callington; Finberg 1960, p. 32; Chaplais 1966, pp. 16-19 (no. 18), original, with later interlineations (= 1981, XV, pp. 16-19); Chaplais 1966a, p. 173, original (= 1973, p. 57); O'Donovan 1972, pp. 34-5, 36; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 892-3, genuine; Fleming 1985, p. 256; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. lv-vi; Olson 1989, p. 63; BA Facs., p. 8, probably contemporary; Hooke 1994, pp. 16-17, 20, on estates; Kennedy 1995, p. 183 n. 197; Thompson 2006, p. 109, on script

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