S 1637

A.D. 991. Brihtnoth, dux, to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of land at Lawling, Essex; Eleigh and Hadleigh, Suffolk. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 201r (s. xii)
2. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. B, f. 96r (s. xv)
3. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 25v (s. xiii in.)
4. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 108r (s. xiii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 326 (s. xiii)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 17v (s. xvi 1)

Printed:

Essex Arch. Soc. Trans xx, p. 175 n. 1; Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2223-4, ex MS 1; Palgrave 1832, p. ccxxiii, ex MS 4

Comments:

Whitelock, Wills, p. 107, spurious but may contain information from genuine sources; Robertson, Charters, p. 430; Hart 1957, no. 27; Hart, ECEE, no. 79, spurious

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    • [A]nno dominice incarnationis .dccccxci. Ego dux Brihtnothus iturus contra paganos ad bellum, consenciente rege Æthelredo, diuisi omnes terras meas per ecclesias per Angliam, audiente Sirico archiepiscopo et optimatibus regis omnibusque id laudantibus et consentientibus. Ecclesie saluatoris in ciuitate Dorobernie has terras contuli: Lellinges, Illelege et Hætlege; liberas ab omni seruitute seculari exceptis expeditione, pontis et arcis constructione. Hætlege tamen concessi Ælflede uxori mee tantum in diebus suis; postea redeat ad ecclesiam Christi eadem uilla. Siquis easdem uillas aut aliquam partem ex hiis uillis a predicta ecclesia abstulerit, sit ei pars et societas cum Iuda qui Christum uendidit in inferno inferiori, nisi de hoc quod male gessit congruam faciat emendati[onem].