| Description | Later version of DCc-ChAnt/C/1, as dated by Birch by handwriting. Original dated 803. Declaration 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, followed by names of 26 abbots and priests, listed according to diocese. Made at the council of 'Clofesho' ('cloveshos').
Endorsed with description in 12th cent hand. |
| Publication Note | 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 5 .
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 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 |