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Stowe Ch 2
- Record Id:
- 040-001953950
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000271
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173358.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 2
- Title:
- Grant of King Wihtred of Kent (d. 725) to the churches and monasteries of Kent
- Scope & Content:
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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 confirmation; dated 716 at a synod at Cloveshoh (Sawyer, no. 22).
Endorsed in a 12th-century hand, ‘Priuilegium wichtredi regis cantuariorum et brihtuualdi archiepiscopi de libertate anglicane ecclesie. .latine.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001953950 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 2 : Grant of King Wihtred of Kent (d. 725) to the churches and monasteries of Kent - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0002]/040-001953950
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Stowe Ch 1-646
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100165173358.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1000
- End Date:
- 1049
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 11th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 650 × 260 mm.
Script: Anglo-Caroline minuscule, written by Eadui Basan (Eadwig the Fat).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Benedictine cathedral priory of Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, Kent.
Sir Edward Dering, first baronet (b. 1598, d. 1644), antiquary and religious controversialist: his mark on the dorse.
Thomas Astle (b. 1735, d. 1803), archivist and collector of books and manuscripts.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1776, d. 1839), 1st duke of Buckingham and Chandos, of Stowe House, near Buckingham.
Richard Temple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville (b. 1797, d. 1861), 2nd duke of Buckingham and Chandos: sold in 1849 to Lord Ashburnham.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1797, d. 1878), 4th earl of Ashburnham, of Ashburnham Place, Sussex.
Bertram Ashburnham (b. 1840, d. 1913), 5th earl of Ashburnham: purchased by the British Museum from him together with 1084 other Stowe manuscripts in 1883.
- Information About Copies:
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Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts, https://bl.uk/manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Wright, Cyril Ernest, ‘Sir Edward Dering: A Seventeenth-Century Antiquary and His “Saxon” Charters’, in The Early Cultures of North-West Europe, ed. by Cyril Fox and Bruce Dickins (Cambridge: University Press, 1950), pp. 371–93.
Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 22.
Brooks, N.P., and S.E. Kelly, eds., Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), no. 8 [edition and commentary].
Keynes, Simon, and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/471.html [accessed 5 November 2016; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alric, son of Uuihtred, King of Kent
Astle, Thomas, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts, 1735-1803
Berhtuuald, alias Berichtuald; Archbishop of Canterbury
Diocese of Rochester
Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, 1491-1547,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122586127
Hoo Monastery, Kent
See of Canterbury
Shepey Priory, Kent
South-minster Monastery, Kent
Uihtredus alias Uuihtredus, of England, King of Kent
Upminster Monastery, Kent
Æthelbald, King of the Mercians, d 757 - Places:
- Bapchild, Kent
Clofesho al. Clovesho, Mildenhall county Suffolk
Dover, England
Folkestone, Kent
Lyminge, Kent - Related Material:
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From the Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Edward J.L. Scott, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895):
‘RECORD Of Proceedings at a Great Council held at Baccanceld [Bapchild, near Sittingbourne, co. Kent], presided over by Uuihtred, King of the Cantuarii, settling the privileges of the church with regard to the monasteries of Upmynster, Raculf [Reculver], Suðmynster, Dofras [Dover], Folcaustan [Folkestone], Limming [Lyminge], Scepeig [Shepey], and Æt-Hoe [Hoo?], [co. Kent]; and granting to the dioceses of Christ Church [Canterbury] and Rochester freedom from secular taxation and interference in ecclesiastical matters. The charter to be deposited in St. Saviour's Church, Dorobernia [sc. Canterbury Cathedral]. Witn.: Uuihtred, king, for himself, the queen Uuerburg, and their son Alric; Berhtuuald, archbishop [of Canterbury]; and others. [?Circ. A.D. 697.] At the end is a paragraph recording the confirmiation of the above at a Synod at Cloveshoh [in Mildenhall, co. Suff.], A.D. 716, indict. xiii., 1 Æthelbald of the Mercians. Witn.: Berhtwald, archbishop, and others. Latin. Facsim. in Ord. Surv., pt. iii. pl. 2; printed in Haddan and Stubbs' Councils, iii. pp. 238, 300, from MS. Lambeth 1212, and in Cartul. Saxon., no. 91.’