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Order NumberCCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/1
TitleStatute
PreviousNumbers92 (late medieval); C 195 (Norris); Red Book 4 (20th c)
Date12 Oct 0803
DescriptionDeclaration by Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury, and bishops and higher clergy not to appoint lay lords over religious houses and to follow monastic discipline. This is in accordance with a mandate from Pope Leo III. Subscriptions, with crosses, by all 12 bishops of province, and by 78 abbots, priests and deacons, listed according to diocese. Made at the council of 'Clofesho' ('cloves hoas').

Endorsed with description in 12th cent hand.
Extent1 doc
Physical DescriptionParchment, 1m
LanguageLatin
AccessConditionsPlease use digitised copy
AccessStatusOpen
CopiesDigitised
Publication NoteCalendared in S E Kelly (ed) The Electronic Sawyer (http://www.trin.cam.ac.uk/chartwww/eSawyer.99/ . eSawyer2.html - consulted Aug 2004) as no 1431b .
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 4 .
Transcribed and discussed in N P Brooks and S E Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury (British Academy, Oxford, 2013), pp456-63, as no 33 .
Transcribed in J M Kemble, 'Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici', vol v (London, 1840), pp64-6, as no 1024 .
Transcribed in W De G Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, vol i (London, 1885), pp434-7, as no 312 . Extract translated, with discussion in N Brooks, The early history of the Church of Canterbury (Leicester, 1984), pp126, 179-80 .
Discussed in C Cubitt, Anglo-Saxon Church Councils c650-c850 (London, 1995), pp43, 61, 280 .
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p456

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