S 988

A.D. 1035. Writ of King Cnut declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Æthelnoth all the landed property that Ælfmær had. English

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. IV, f. 87, recto (s. xi)

Printed:

K, 1325; Earle, p. 237; Harmer, Writs, no. 30

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 172, 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, contemporary scribe (= 1973, pp. 59-60); Dumville 1983, p. 53, on MS; Brooks 1984, pp. 296, 387 n. 120; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 346-7 (no. 284), art. f; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 237

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    • + Cnut cyngc gret Eadsige bisceop . 7 Ælfstan abbot . 7 Ægelric . 7 ealle mine þegenas on Cent freondlice . 7 ic cyðe eow þæt ic hæbbe geunnan Æþelnoðe arcebisceope . ealre þare landare þe Ælfmær hæfde . 7 mid rihte into Cristes cyricean gebyrað . binnan birig 7 butan . on wuda 7 on felda . swa full 7 swa forð swa Ælfric arcebisceop hyre weold oþþe ænig his forgengena.
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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 have granted Archbishop Æthelnoth all the landed property that Ælfmær had and [which] rightly belongs to Christ Church, within the borough and outside it, with woodland and open land, as fully and to such an extent as Archbishop Ælfric possessed it or any of his predecessors.
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    • Cnut cyngc gret Eadsige biscop 7 Ælfstan abbot 7 Ægelric 7 ealle mine ˇegenas on Cent freondlice. 7 ic cy∂e eow ˇæt ic hæbbe geunnan æˇelno∂e arcebisceope ealre ˇare landare ˇe Ælfmær hæfde 7 mid rihte into Cristes cyricean gebyra∂ binnan birig 7 butan on wuda 7 on felda swa full 7 swa for∂ swa Ælfric arcebiscop hyre weold oˇˇe ænig his forgengena.