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A.D. 1032 (Glastonbury). King Cnut to the church of St Mary, Glastonbury; grant and confirmation of privileges. Latin

Archive:

Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity College, R.5.33 (724), ff. 1-19v, f. 14r (s. xiii)
2. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 61v(s. xiv med.; dated 1302 for 1032)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. V, ff. 89v-90r(s. xv)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 252, ff. 20v-21r(s. xvii)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 69r(s. xiv; dated 1030)
6. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, pp. 52-53(s. xvii)
7. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128, f. 204v(s. xvii; in part)

Printed:

Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 44 (no. 66); Hearne, Adam of Domerham, i. 88-9; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 147-8 (no. 206), ex MS 2; Hearne, John of Glastonbury, i. 148-50; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 298-9; Thorpe, pp. 327-8; Alford 1663, iii. 503; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 528-530, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; K, 747; Mon. Angl., ii. 842

Printed and Translated:

Scott 1981, pp. 132-3; Carley, Glast. Chron., pp. 148-9, ex MS 3

Comments:

Abrams 1996, pp. 15 n. 31, 127-30, 348 n. 148, may have authentic basis, post-Conquest in present form; Davidson 1884, p. 15, spurious; Keynes 1994a, p. 52 n. 51, spurious; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 239, suspect, drafted or forged at Glastonbury; Wormald 1995, p. 128, bogus; Keynes 1980, pp. 140-1 n. 202, spurious; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 196, Description of charter contents, labelled 61, p. 530-532, Discussion of charter as a post-Conquest fabrication, its presence in numerous cartularies and manuscripts, the differences between each version of it, and the relation of the historical context of Cnut's reign to the decifering of what truth lies being this forgery; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 199, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 529, authentic basis