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S 681

A.D. 959. King Edgar to Quen, his faithful matrona; grant of land at Howden and Old Drax, Yorks., with dependencies at Howden, Knedlington, Barnhill (Hall, west of Howden), Caville (in Eastrington), Thorpe Lidget, Hive, Eastrington, Belby (in Howden) and Kilpin, all Yorks. Latin with English bounds

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Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, ff. 33r-34v(s. xii med.)
2. Peterborough, DC., 1, ff. 128v-129r(s. xiii med.; no bounds)

Printed:

Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 117; Farrer, EYC, pp. 12-13 (no. 4); Kelly, Peterborough, p. 240-242, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter; Hutchinson 1891, p. 365 n.; K, 480 and vol. iii. 454; B, 1052

Translated:

Farrer, EYC, pp. 12-13 (no. 4), bounds only; Hutchinson 1891, pp. 363-4

Comments:

Farrer, EYC, pp. 14-15; Sawyer, Burton, p. 14, authentic; Stenton 1955, p. 68, on reference to soke; Keynes 1980, pp. 69 n. 135, 75-6, on royal style; may be early work of 'Edgar A', compare S 680; Stenton 1910, pp. 80-1; Woodman, Northern Houses, p. 101, Authentic charter of the mid 10th century that uses the phrase "sake and soke," like S 659, p. 103, Discussion of charter as means of understanding Archbishop Oscytel of York's status and career path, p. 114, Charter produced while Edgar was king over solely Mercia, East Anglia, and Northumbria which's witness list contains Old English and Norse names, like S 679, p. 304, Charter in which a bishop of the Cuthertine community appears, showing connections between the latter and the broader English court, p. 357, Charter of Edgar in which Ulfketel of S 1661 is attested; Kelly, St Paul's, London, p. 119, Document that sheds light on St. Dunstan's pluralism while bishop of London; Hart, ECNE, no. 122, authentic, with discussion of bounds; Kelly, Peterborough, p. 122, Description of charter contents, labelled 14, p. 242-247, Discussion of charter as genuine copy of a 959 diploma issued while Edgar was king of solely Mercia, its inclusion of witnesses with Scandinavian names, the status of its female beneficiary, and the boundaries of Howden and Drax; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 153, suspicious; Hart 1992, pp. 449-52, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 495, cited; Lawson 1984, p. 730; Coates 2000c, on place-name; Hutchinson 1891

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