S 987

A.D. 1035. Writ of King Cnut declaring that Archbishop Æthelnoth is to continue to discharge the obligations on the lands belonging to the archbishopric at the same rate as he has done hitherto, both before and after the appointment of Æthelric as reeve. English

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. IV, f. 87, verso (s. xi; Chaplais 1966/1, pl. I, opp. p. 163 = 1973, pl. I, opp. p. 64)

Printed:

Hickes, Inst. Gramm., p. 163 n; K, 1323; Thorpe, p. 330; Earle, p. 237; Harmer, Writs, no. 29

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 171-2, 450, authentic; Chaplais 1966, p. 18, copy in Canterbury gospel-book, declaration may originally have reached Canterbury in oral form (= 1981, XV p. 18); Chaplais 1966a, p. 175, authentic, contemporary scribe (= 1973, pp. 59-60); Dumville 1983, p. 53, on MS; Brooks 1984, pp. 296, 387 n. 120; Keynes 1988, p. 216 n. 183, stylistic links with S 1113; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 346-7 (no. 284), art. g; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 237

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    • + Cnut cyngc gret Eadsige bisceop . 7 Ælfstan abbot . 7 Ægelric . 7 ealle mine þegnas on Cent freondlice 7 ic cyþe eow þæt ic wylle þæt Æþelnoð arcebisceop werige his landare into his bisceoprice nu eal swa he dyde ær Ægelric wære gerefa . 7 siððan he gerefa wæs forð oð þis . 7 ic nelle na geþafian þæt man þam bisceope ænige unlage beode beo gerefa se þe beo.
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    • King Cnut greets Bishop Eadsige and Abbot Ælfstan and Æthelric and all my thegns in Kent in friendship. And I make known to you that I desire that Archbishop Æthelnoth shall now answer for the landed property [pertaining] to his bishopric, exactly as he did before Æthelric was reeve, and as [he did] after he became reeve until this [day]. And I will not allow the bishop to be threatened with any injustice, no matter who may be reeve.
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    • Cnut cyngc gret Eadsige biscop 7 Ælfstan abbot 7 Ægelric 7 ealle mine ˇegnas on Cent freondlice. 7 ic cyˇe eow ˇæt ic wylle ˇæt æˇelno∂ arcebiscop werige his landare into his bisceoprice nu eal swa he dyde ær Ægelric wære gerefa 7 si∂∂an he gerefa wæs for∂ o∂ ˇis. 7 ic nelle na geˇafian ˇæt man ˇam bisceope ænige unlage beode beo gerefa se ˇe beo.