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Stowe Ch 27
- Record Id:
- 040-001953975
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-001953948
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000534.0x00028a
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100165173396.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Stowe Ch 27
- Title:
- Bequest of Æthelweard (d. 998?); with agreement between Eadric and the community at Christ Church, Canterbury
- Scope & Content:
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Bequest of Æthelweard, concerning an estate at Ickham, Kent leased by Archbishop Oda and the community of Christ Church, Canterbury; 941 × 958, perhaps 958 (Sawyer, no. 1506).
With a later agreement between Eadric and Christ Church concerning his tenure of the estate.
Lower portion of a chirograph (with ‘CYREGRAFFA’ written along the upper edge).
Endorsed in an 11th-century hand, ‘Omnia hec data sunt couentui specialiter.’; in a 12th-century hand, ‘Iecham’; in another 12th-century hand, ‘Donatio \ethelwirde/ [added by a 14th-century hand] de gecham. .anglice.’; in a 13th-century hand, ‘Odo’; and in a 14th-century hand, ‘Anno dccccº.lviiiº.’ and ‘scrip’; in another 14th-century hand, ‘·xii·’
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Anglo-Saxon Charters
Stowe Collection - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-001953948
040-001953975 - Is part of:
- Stowe Ch 1-646 : Stowe Charters
Stowe Ch 27 : Bequest of Æthelweard (d. 998?); with agreement between Eadric and the community at Christ Church, Canterbury - Hierarchy:
- 032-001953948[0027]/040-001953975
- 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_100165173396.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
- Languages:
- English, Old
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 0941
- End Date:
- 0958
- Date Range:
- 941-958
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 130 × 465–470 mm.
Script: Anglo-Saxon square 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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Sawyer, P.H., Anglo-Saxon Charters: An Annotated List and Bibliography, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 8 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1968), no. 1506.
Brooks, N.P., and S.E. Kelly, eds., Charters of Christ Church Canterbury, Anglo-Saxon Charters, 17–18 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013), no. 121 [edition and commentary].
Keynes, Simon, and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/497.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
Benedictine abbey of St Augustine, Canterbury, Kent, 598-1538
Eadelm, Abbot of St. Augustine's, Canterbury
Eadric
Oda, Archbishop of Canterbury
Ædelwyrd - Places:
- Canterbury, England
Ickham, 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 bequest by Æðelwyrd, with consent of Oda, Archbishop, and the monastery of Christ Church [Canterbury], to Eadric, of land [held by him under a lease for three lives] at Geocham [Ickham, co. Kent] for his life, with reversion to Æðelwyrd for her life, subject to certain specified rents in money and kind. Witn.: Oda, archbishop; Eadelm. abbot of St. Augustine['s Abbey, Canterbury]; the three fellowships of burgesses; and others. Dated on the back in a much later hand, A.D. 958, but the charter is probably earlier. On the back are the terms of Eadric's appropriation of the above land. Anglo-Saxon. Facsim. in Ord. Surv., pt. iii. pl. 28; printed in l.c.; Lye, Diction., 1772, vol. ii. appx.; Kemble, Cod. Dipl., no. cccclxxvii.; Thorpe, Dipl., p. 509; Ord. Surv., l.c.; Brit. Mus. Catal. of Selection from the Stowe MSS., 1883, p. 4; Cartul. Saxon., no. 1010, cf. also no. 1011.’