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A.D. 927 x 939. Writ of King Athelstan for church and chapter of Ripon. Latin

Archive:

Ripon

MSS:

1. London, Public Record Office, DL 41/6/1(s. xiii)
2. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 160 (S.C. 5101), f. 250v(s. xvii)
3. London, British Library, Harley 6387, f. 41r

Printed:

Fowler 1881, pp. 89-90; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 133 (no. 6); Mon. Angl., i. 173; Thorpe, p. 179; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 258, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; K, 358; Earle, p. 438; Harmer, Writs, p. 537, ex Fowler; B, 646, ex Mon. Angl, 858, ex MS 1

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, p. 14 n. 1, spurious, post-Conquest wording; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 18, Charter from the Ripon archive that is clearly spurious, p. 244, Spurious charter from Ripon archive likely concocted to emphasize connection with Aethelstan and assert their contentious property claims, p. 250-251, Discussion of this charter's likely postdating 1139 and possibly originating out Ripon's need to defend itself during a 1228 trial, p. 252-253, Discussion of the manuscripts in which this charter is presently found, p. 258-259, Discussion of document as spurious, as known from it being in the form of a writ, yet written in Latin rather than Old English, and several clear post-Conquest anachronisms, the supposed grants made by Aethelstan to Ripon in this document, and the likely mid 13th century conquest in which it was fabricated; Fowler 1881, pp. 89-90; Keynes 1986, p. 90, spurious; Farrer, EYC, i. 108, possibly based on a writ of Henry I; V.C.H. Yorks., iii. 367