| Description | From: Edward the Confessor, king of England
He has granted to Stigand, archbishop of Canterbury, and the community at Christ Church all the lands they held under him and under his predecessors, and judicial and financial rights over their men and thegns. Addressed to his bishops, earls, sheriffs and thegns in the shires in which they hold land. [Original datable to 1052x1066. Stigand became archbishop in 1052. This version dated by handwriting to c1100 by Harmer, as below, p176.]
Words obscured on recto by tear and stitching copied on verso.
Endorsed with description in Latin in 12th cent hand. |
| Publication Note | Calendared in P H Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, an annotated list and bibliography (London, Royal Historical Society, 1968), pp324-5, as no 1089 .
Transcribed, translated and discussed in N P Brooks and S E Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury (British Academy, Oxford, 2013), pp1200-3, as no 180 .
Other versions transcribed, with translation and discussion in F E Harmer, Anglo-Saxon writs (Manchester, 1952), pp175-8, 187-8, 452-3, as no 34 .
Discussed, with photograph in F E Harmer, 'Anglo-Saxon charters and the historian', in Bulletin of the John Rylands Library, vol xxii (1938), pp347-9, plate opp p339 .
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, pp456, 459 |