| Description | Party: Aelfstan, abbot of St Augustine's Abbey
Party: Leofwine, priest
Settlement made by Earl Godwine between the parties concerning the grants of St Mildred's body and lands. The abbot should grant to Leofwine land at Langdon and Ileden and a specified payment. Made in triplicate. Copies held by the cathedral priory, the abbey, and Leofwine. No date. [Date: Robertson.]
Witnesses: Eadsige, archbishop of Canterbury; Siward, bishop; Godwine, earl; the convent of Canterbury Cathedral Priory; the convent of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury
Endorsed 'inutile' in 13th cent hand. |
| Publication Note | Noted in P W Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, an annotated list and bibliography (London, Royal Historical Society, 1968), p412, no 1472 .
Transcribed with translation and facsimile in Lieut-Gen J Camerson, with translations by W Basevi Sanders, Facsimiles of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, part i (Ordnance Survey, Southampton, 1878), as no 23 .
Transcribed, translated and discussed in N P Brooks and S E Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury (British Academy, Oxford, 2013), pp1169-71, as no 169 .
Transcribed, translated and discussed in A J Robertson, Anglo-Saxon Charters (Cambridge, 1939), pp190-1, p438-9, as no 102 . Transcribed in J M Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, vol iv (London, 1845), p118, as no 790 .
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p456 .
Discussed in S E Kelly (ed), Charters of St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, and Minster-in-Thanet (British Academy, Oxford, 1995), ppxxxi and 91 |