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A.D. 1061 x 1066. King Edward to Peterborough Abbey; confirmation of an agreement concerning land at Scotton, Scotter and Manton, Lincs., acquired by the monk Brand and leased by him to his brother Askytel, with reversion after his death to Peterborough Abbey (when an estate at Northorpe, Lincs., is to be substituted for Manton). Latin

Archive:

Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Egerton 2733, ff. 31v-33v(s. xiii med.)
2. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 26r-v(s. xii med.)
3. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 109r(s. xiii med.)
4. Peterborough, DC., 5, f. 20r(s. xiii med.)

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 42; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 306-307, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; K, 819

Comments:

Kelly, Peterborough, p. 123, Description of charter contents, labelled 24, p. 308, Discussion of charter as post-Conquest fabrication intended to aid in disputes regarding the lands of Askytel; Oleson 1955, p. 154, authentic; Hart, ECEE, no. 159, not authentic, but transaction probably has a genuine basis; Lennard 1959, pp. 167-9, on background; Sawyer 1998, p. 234; Stenton 1924, p. xli