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A.D. 1020 x 1023 (London). Record of the acquisition by Ælfsige, abbot of Peterborough, on behalf of the abbey, of fenland at Whittlesey Mere, Hunts., from Thored, in exchange for land at Orton, Hunts., and a sum of money. Latin with bounds
Archive:
Peterborough
MSS:
1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 24r-25v(s. xii med.)
2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 119v-120r(s. xiii med.)
Printed:
Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 4; Stapleton 1849, pp. 182-3; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 287-289, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; K, 733
Translated:
Whitelock, EHD, no. 135 (pp. 602-3)
Comments:
Hart, ECEE, no. 32, authentic; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 123, Description of charter contents, labelled 20, p. 289-294, Discussion of charter as likely being a 12th century paraphrase of an earlier record of Abbot Aelfsige's purchase of land and the insight it provides into the history of Whittlesey Mere; Lawson 1993, p. 165, on Thored; PN Beds. and Hunts., pp. 186, 188, 191, 202, 216, 227; Darby, VCH Hunts., iii. 251-2, with translation of bounds