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Name Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, Kent, 597-1539 Digitised Content Platform BL Digitised Manuscripts (2024-) Level [40] File

1. Stowe Ch 7

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 7
Title:
Restitution of King Coenwulf of the Mercians (d. 821) to Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
King Coenwulf of the Mercians restores 30 sulungs (aratra) at Charing, ten at Seleberhtes cert or Bryning lond (Great Chart) and four at Humbing lond in Barham, Kent, previously seized and redistributed by King Offa, to the metropolitan church of the Saviour [Christ Church], Canterbury; dated 79...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
Late 8th century-Early 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

2. Stowe Ch 13

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 13
Title:
Grant of Archbishop Wulfred (d. 832) to Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Archbishop Wulfred grants five sulungs (aratra) at Eythorne and Langdon (in Eythorne) to Christ Church, Canterbury, in exchange for five sulungs at Barham and Suithberhtincglond, Kent; dated 23 July 824, Canterbury (Sawyer, no. 1266). Endorsed in a 9th-century hand, perhaps the main scribe, ‘ði...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
First half of the 9th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

3. Stowe Ch 19

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 19
Title:
Grant of King Alfred of the West Saxons (r. 871–899) and Archbishop Æthelred of Canterbury (d. 888) to Liaba
Scope & Content:
[King Alfred of the West Saxons and] Archbishop Æthelred, with the familia of Christ Church, Canterbury, grant land at Ileden, Kent, to Liaba, son of Birgwine, in return for 25 mancuses of gold; with an English note, dated 873 (Sawyer, no. 344). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘+ ðis is sia bo...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
873
Extent:

Parchment leaf

4. Stowe Ch 28

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 28
Title:
Grant of Queen Eadgifu of the Anglo-Saxons (b. in or before 904, d. in or after 966) to Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Queen Eadgifu grants land at Cooling, and at Osterland, Kent, to Christ Church, Canterbury, with an account of the history of these estates; c. 959 (Sawyer, no. 1211). Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Eadgyua regina’; in another 12th-century hand, ‘Quomodo ediua regina recuperauit culinge quam...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
? 959
Extent:

Parchment leaf

5. Stowe Ch 35

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 35
Title:
Grant of King Æthelred of England (r. 978–1016) to his man, Æthelred
Scope & Content:
King Æthelred grants land in Canterbury and six agri outside the city to his man, Æthelred, for two lives, in return for seven pounds, with reversion to Christ Church; dated 11 July 1003 for 1002, Canterbury, with English bounds (Sawyer, no. 905). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, perhaps that o...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1002
Extent:

Parchment leaf

6. Stowe Ch 37

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 37
Title:
Will of Æthelstan Ætheling (d. 1014)
Scope & Content:
Will of Æthelstan Ætheling; dated 1014, probably 25 June (Sawyer, no. 1503). Endorsed in a contemporary hand, ‘¶ ÆÐELSTANES CǷYDE ÆÐELINCGES ÷ \OF OLINGEBVRNE into cristes cerce/ [added subsequently in smaller capitals]’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Elstan etheling filius eðelreð regis dedit eccle...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
1014
Extent:

Parchment leaf

7. Stowe Ch 39

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 39
Title:
Grant of King Cnut of England (r. 1016-1035) to Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
King Cnut grants his crown and the port of Sandwich to Christ Church, Canterbury; dated 1023. Endorsed in a 14th-century hand, ‘Carta Cnut Regis. De portu sanwichi.’ and ‘Carta Cnuth de Sanwicho’; and in a 15th-century hand, ‘Registra’
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

Parchment leaf

8. Stowe Ch 43

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 43
Title:
Restitution of King Henry I (r. 1100–1135) to Archbishop William and the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Henry I (r. 1100–1135), King of England, restores to Archbishop William de Corbeuil (b. c. 1070, d. 1136) and the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, all the lands and privileges which they held in the time of Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066) and William I (r. 1066–1087). A bilingual charter ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
c 1123-c 1136
Extent:
1 leaf

9. Stowe Ch 44

Reference (shelfmark):
Stowe Ch 44
Title:
Restitution of King Henry II (r. 1154–1189) to Archbishop Theobald and the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury
Scope & Content:
Henry II (r. 1154–1189), King of England, restores to Archbishop Theobald (b. c. 1090, d. 1161) and the monks of Christ Church, Canterbury, all the lands and privileges which they held in the time of Edward the Confessor (r. 1042–1066), William I (r. 1066–1087), and Henry I (r. 1100–1135). A bil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
1155
Extent:
1 leaf