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Add Ch 33658
- Record Id:
- 040-002182299
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002181667
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000504.0x00018a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add Ch 33658
- Title:
- Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to Ramsey Abbey
- Scope & Content:
- King Edgar confirms and grants privileges to Ramsey Abbey of land at Ramsey, Upwood with Raveley, Hemingford, Sawtry, Stukeley, Brington, and Old Weston, Huntingdonshire; Hilgay and Walsoken, Norfolk; fish from Wells, Norfolk; land at Brancaster, Norfolk; at Warboys, Wistow with Raveley and Bury, and at Slepam (St Ives), Huntingdonshire; at Chatteris and Elsworth, Cambridgeshire; at Whiston and Isham, Northamptonshire; at Houghton, Wyton, Ripton, Ellington, Bythorn, Huntingdonshire; at Graveley, Cambridgeshire; and at Dillington, Great Staughton and Yelling, Huntingdonshire; dated 28 December 974, spurious (Sawyer, no. 798).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Charters and Rolls
Anglo-Saxon Charters - Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002181667
036-002182280
040-002182299 - Is part of:
- Add Ch 33047-34933 : CHARTERS and (34,270-34,933) Rolls chiefly relating to the Benedictine Abbey of Ramsey and the Cistercian Abbey of Sawtry
Add Ch 33640-33698 : Co. Huntingdon: Ramsey Abbey, 1115? - 1615.
Add Ch 33658 : Grant of King Edgar of England (r. 959–975) to Ramsey Abbey - Hierarchy:
- 032-002181667[0072]/036-002182280[0019]/040-002182299
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Add Ch 33047-34933
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
-
Parchment leaf
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Dimensions: 655 × 775 mm.
Script: Gothic.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Benedictine Abbey of Saint Mary the Virgin and St Benedict, Ramsey, Huntingdonshire.
Provenance:
Acquired by the British Museum in 1888.
- 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. 798.
Simon Keynes and others, The Electronic Sawyer http://esawyer.org.uk/manuscript/194.html [accessed 1 November 2016; bibliography].
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)