| Order Number | CCA-DCc/ChAnt/C/69 |
| Title | Grant |
| PreviousNumbers | II (late 13th c); 81 (late medieval); Red Book 3 (20th c) |
| Date | [mid-late 10th century] |
| c0795 |
| 0790 |
| Description | From: Offa, king of the English
To: Æthelheard, archbishop of Canterbury
Of 60 'tributaria' of land at Hayes ('onlinga haese') [Middlesex] and 'geddingas' [possibly Yeading] near the stream called 'fisces burna' for the repair of the cathedral; and 30 'tributaria' of land at Twickenham ('tuican ham') [Middlesex] on the north bank of the River Thames for clothing the monks. This was done at a meeting in London on the day of Pentecost. Witnesses: Offa, king of Mercia; Ecgferth, king; AEthelheard, archbishop; Colwulf, Unwona, Hathored, Ceolmund, Ealhheard, Elfhun, Cyneberht, Deneferth and Waermund, bishops; Ealhmund, Utel and Forthred, abbots; Brorda, Bynna, Esne, Heardbriht, Ethelmund, Eadgar, Wigga, Cydda, Cuthberht, Ceolmund, Ubba and Eobing, ealdormen ('princeps')
No date. [Date: handwriting.] [Date: see Brooks, as below. The charter is dated 790, but also the 38th year of Offa's reign. 795 accords with the regnal year and with the witness list.] Balance of opinion summarised in Electronic Sawyer, cited below, is that this is spurious but based on a genuine synodical record.
Endorsed with Hayes and Twickenham in 11th cent hand, and with descriptions in 12th cent hands. |
| Extent | 1 doc |
| Physical Description | Parchment, 1m |
| Language | Latin |
| AccessStatus | Open |
| Copies | Digitised |
| Related Material | Registered versions: CCA-DCc-Register/A, ff138r-138v; CCA-DCc-Register/E, ff40r-40v; CCA-DCc-Register/P, ff20v-21r
Other versions listed in Electronic Sawyer, as below |
| Publication Note | Noted in P W Sawyer, Anglo-Saxon Charters, an annotated list and bibliography (London, Royal Historical Society, 1968), pp104-5, no 132 .
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 3 .
Transcribed and discussed in N P Brooks and S E Kelly (eds), Charters of Christ Church, Canterbury (British Academy, Oxford, 2013), pp412-17, as no 25 .
Transcribed in W De Gray Birch, Cartularium Saxonicum, vol i (London, 1887), pp369-71, as no 265 .
Transcribed in J M Kemble, Codex Diplomaticus Aevi Saxonici, vol i (London, 1845), pp191-3, as no 159 .
Discussed in N Brooks, The early history of the Church of Canterbury (Leicester, 1984), pp320-1 .
Noted in Historical Manuscripts Commission Fifth Report (London, 1876), Appendix, p456 |