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Language Latin Place Folkestone, Kent Level [40] File

1. Add MS 42075

Reference (shelfmark):
Add MS 42075
Title:
Scope & Content:
HAMILTON AND GREVILLE PAPERS. Vol. IX (ff. 89). Letters and papers rel. to Dover and the Cinque Ports (cf. Add. MS. 40717, art. i, where the descent of these papers is explained); 16th cent.-1759. The most noteworthy are:-(1) Letters and papers, mainly copies, rel. to Dover harbour; 1 Apr. 1609-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English and Latin
Date Range:
16th century-1759
Extent:
1 item

2. Stowe Ch 2

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 2
Title:
Grant of King Wihtred of Kent (d. 725) to the churches and monasteries of Kent
Scope & Content:
King Wihtred of Kent grants privileges and immunity to the churches and monasteries of Kent, with specific prohibition of lay domination over St Peter’s at Upmynster, Reculver, Minster-in-Thanet, Dover, Folkestone, Lyminge, Minster-in-Sheppey and Hoo; dated 699 × 716, Bapchild, Kent. With confir...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 11th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3. Stowe Ch 40

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 40
Title:
Grant of King Cnut of England (r. 1016-1035) to Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
King Cnut grants the reversion of land at Folkestone, Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury, after the death of his priest, Eadsige; c. 1035, in both Latin and English (Sawyer, no. 981). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Donatio regis cnut. de folkestane. latine et anglice.’; in a 13th-century han...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Late 11th century-Early 12th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf