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Stowe Ch 8
- Record Id:
- 040-001953956
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x000277
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173568.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 8
- Title:
- Grant of King Cuthred of Kent (d. 756) to Æthelnoth, prefectus; Will of Æthelnoth, reeve at Eastry
- Scope & Content:
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King Cuthred of Kent grants three sulungs (aratra) at Eythorne, Kent, to Æthelnoth, prefectus, in return for 3000 pence; dated 805 × 807 (Sawyer, no. 41).
Will of Æthelnoth, reeve at Eastry, and his wife Gænburg, concerning the disposition of their land at Eythorne, Kent; in English, dated 805 × 824 (Sawyer, no. 1500).
Endorsed in an 11th-century hand, ‘Heagyþe ðornes boc’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Cuthredus rex dedit heageþorne Eðelnotho prefecto suo.’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001953956 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 8 : Grant of King Cuthred of Kent (d. 756) to Æthelnoth, prefectus; Will of Æthelnoth, reeve at Eastry - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0008]/040-001953956
- 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_100165173568.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English, Old
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0800
- End Date:
- 0840
- Date Range:
- Early 9th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 300 × 190 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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Cyril Ernest Wright, ‘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.
P.H. Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), nos. 41, 1500.
Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, ed. by N.P. Brooks and S.E. Kelly, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), nos. 39, 39A.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/477.html [accessed 5 November 2016; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Astle, Thomas, archivist and collector of books and manuscripts, 1735-1803
Coenuulf, of England, King of the Mercians
Cuðred, of England, King of Kent
Esne, King's thegn
Gænburg, wife of Ædelnod, reeve of Eastry, fl 805
Uulfred, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ædelhun, Mass-priest
Ædelnod, Prefect, Reeve of Eastry - Places:
- Eastry, Kent
Eythorne, 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):
‘RECITAL of a grant by Cuðred, King of the Cantwarii, with the consent of Coenuulf, king of the Mercians, to Æðelnoð, prefect, of three aratra of land at Heagyðe-ðorne [Eythorne, co. Kent] for 3,000 pence. Witn.: Coenuulf, king; Cuðred, king of Kent; Uulfred, archbishop [of Canterbury]; and others. [Circ. A.D. 805.] Latin. ii. Testamentary disposition by the above Æðelnoð, Reeve of Eastorege [Eastry, co. Kent], and Gænburg, his wife, in the presence of Wulfred, Archbishop, Æðelhun, his mass-priest, and Esne, the king's thegn, settling the above land upon the longer life of the two beforementioned, and the child of Gænburg, if she have one; otherwise Archbishop Wulfred may purchase the land and spend the money in alms. Witn.: Wulfred, archbishop; Eðelnoð, Gænburg, and others. Anglo-Saxon. Facsim. in Ord. Surv., pt. iii. pl. 7; printed in 1.c., Kemble, Cod. Dipl., no. cxci., and Cartul. Saxon., no. 318; cf. Cotton Ch. Augustus II. 100, which appears to be the original grant, etc.’
- Related Archive Descriptions:
- Cotton MS Augustus II 100