Texts

S 450

Incoming data

Anglo-Saxon charter in Latin, with English bounds, according to which King Æthelstan (r. 924-939) granted some land to the church of St Buryan, Cornwall. In its received form the document is not authentic, but a genuine basis has been suggested for several of its features (Olson). The date given is 6 October, 943 (sic), and the meeting is said to have taken place at Kingston-on-Thames (Kyngeston), Surrey.

Manuscript witnesses

Text

Exeter, Devon Record Office, MS Chanter 4

f. 25v

Sources

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The electronic Sawyer: online catalogue of Anglo-Saxon charters, Online: King's College London, ...–present. URL: <http://esawyer.org.uk>.

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Secondary sources (select)

Olson, Lynette, Early monasteries in Cornwall, Studies in Celtic History, 11, Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1989.

78–84

Padel, O. J., “Two new pre-Conquest charters from Cornwall”, Cornish Studies: Journal of the Institute of Cornish Studies 6 (1978): 20–27.

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