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Stowe Ch 7
- Record Id:
- 040-001953955
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000276
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173564.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 7
- Title:
- Restitution of King Coenwulf of the Mercians (d. 821) to Christ Church, Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
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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 799, Tamworth, Staffordshire (Sawyer, no. 155).
Endorsed in a 10th-century hand, ‘Cyrring. cert’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Kenulf rex dedit [dedit deleted and reddidit quas prius egbertus rex dederat et offa rex abstulit added above by same scribe] athilardo archiepiscopo. cerring .xxxᵃ. aratra. selebertes cert. biringland .x. item umbingland on burnan [burnan deleted and berham added above by main scribe] .iiii. aratra que aldun minister regis ecclesie cristi deder\a/t. Item .iiii. aratra et burnan pro .c. mancusis auri.’ and ‘.latine.’; in a 13th- or 14th-century hand, ‘Anno dccº. lxxºxxixº’, ‘.iii. dupl’.’, and ‘.I.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001953955 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 7 : Restitution of King Coenwulf of the Mercians (d. 821) to Christ Church, Canterbury - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0007]/040-001953955
- 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_100165173564.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0760
- End Date:
- 0840
- Date Range:
- Late 8th century-Early 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 257–260 × 185 mm.
Script: Anglo-Saxon pointed minuscule.
- 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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P.H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 155.
Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, ed. by N.P. Brooks and S.E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), no. 29.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/476.html [accessed 5 November 2016; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aedilheard, Archbishop of Canterbury
Astle, Thomas, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts, 1735-1803
Benedictine cathedral priory of the Holy Trinity or Christ Church, Canterbury, Kent, 597-1539
Coenuulf, of England, King of the Mercians
Hygeberht, Archbishop of Lichfield - Places:
- Barham, Kent
Bishopsbourne, Kent
Charing, Kent
Great Chart, Kent
Tamworth, Staffordshire - Related Material:
- From the Catalogue of the Stowe Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Edward J.L. Scott, 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1895):
‘RESTITUTION by Coenuulf, King of the Mercians, for 100 mancusæ, to the metropolitan church of St. Saviour [Christ Church, Canterbury], at the petition of Archbishop Aeðilheard, of forty-four aratra of land (viz., at Ciorrincg [Charing, co. Kent], thirty aratra; at Seleberhtes-cert [Great Chart, co. Kent] and Bryning-lond, ten aratra originally purchased from King Egeberht; at Humbinglond in Biora-ham [Barham, co. Kent], four aratra granted by Egeberht to Aldhun the thegn, and by him given to the Church), which King Offa had, on the ground of unlawful grant by Aldhun, taken and distributed among his thegns; and confirmation of Egberht's grant to the same of four aratra of land at Burn [Bishopsbourne, co. Kent]. Witn.: Coenuulf, king; Hygeberht, archbishop [of Lichfield]; Aeðilheard, archbishop [of Canterbury]; and others. Dat. at the royal vicus at Tome-worðig [Tamworth, co. Staff.], 3 Coenuulf, indict. vii., A.D. 799. Latin. Facsim. in Ord. Surv., pt. iii. pl. 7; printed in l.c. and Cartul. Saxon., no. 293. Cf. Kemble, Cod. Dipl., no. mxx., from a late copy.’