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A.D. 1018. King Cnut to Burhwold, bishop; confirmation of a grant made by King Edmund (Ironside) of 4 hides (cassatae) at Landrake and at Tinnell in Landulph, Cornwall, in exchange for land at Throwleigh, Devon. The land at Landrake to revert on the bishop's death to St German's. Latin with English and English bounds

Archive:

Exeter (ex St Germans)

MSS:

1. Exeter, D.C., 2524 (s. xi 2; OS Facs., ii, Exeter 9)
2. London, British Library, Lansdowne 966, ff. 75r-76r (s. xvii; lacks bounds)

Printed:

K, 728, Latin only; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 525-6 (no. 2); HS, i. 686-8, Latin only; Davidson 1883, pp. 287-9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 2; Hooke 1994, pp. 55, 59, bounds only

Translated:

Davidson 1883, pp. 287-9, bounds only; Whitelock, EHD, no. 131 (pp. 597-9)

Comments:

Davidson 1883, pp. 285-7, authentic; Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 24, slightly later hand; Finberg, ECDC, no. 53 (pp. 14, 19); Stenton 1955, p. 82, cited; Chaplais 1966, pp. 21-2 (no. 21), script unlikely to be earlier than third quarter of s. xi, the document as a whole is not authentic and it is impossible to say how much genuine material it may contain (= 1981, XV pp. 21-2); Stenton 1971, p. 409, cited; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent, but charter is probably not authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 597; Keynes 1980, p. 27 n. 43, on formula; Hill 1986, suggests issued at royal assembly; Olson 1989, p. 77 n. 153; Dumville 1993, p. 133, cited; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 238, suspect, probably a local production; Hooke 1994, pp. 55-62, 186-7, on bounds; Keynes 1994a, pp. 52 n. 51, 68 n. 148, probably spurious, but witness-list from genuine text