Source: CharterS939

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Description

King Æthelred confirms the will of Æthelric (i.e. S 1501), including the bequest of land at Bocking, Essex, to Canterbury, Christ Church.

Charter information
Sawyer 939
Birch ---
Kemble 704
British Academy ---
Source Used  
Archive(s) Canterbury, Christ Church
Source Information
Language Old English
Scholarly Source Dating 995 x 999

Notes

*Plummer 1899, p. 177, dates it 997 x 1001; Whitelock, Wills, pp. 148-51; Hart, ECE, no. 29, original; HRH, p. 236, genuine, subscriptions few but consistent; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 579-80, MS 1 contemporary, discusses background; Keynes 1980, pp. 129-30, 148, 161-2, 208 n. 198, p. 222 n. 244; Keynes 1988, p. 190; Wormald 1988, no. 62; Ramsey and Sparks 1992, p. 311, cited; Lawson 1993, pp. 22-3, 241; Stafford 1994, pp. 234, 238; cf. S 1501.

Notes: Central portion of a tripartite chirograph (one portion kept at Christ Church, one in the king's haligdom and the third retained by Æthelric 12's widow).

Edition(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
Go to Anglo-Saxon Wills Whitelock, Dorothy Anglo-Saxon Wills   1930 44-6 (no. 16/2)

Translation(s)

Editor Article or Book Title Journal or Pub.Loc. Date pp.
  Wills     45-7 (no. 16/2)
  EHD     579-80 (no. 121)