A.D. 1019. King Cnut to Æthelwold, abbot, and the brethren of St Mary's, Exeter; confirmation of privileges. The community's earlier landbooks had been burnt when the minster was destroyed by the Danes. Latin

Archive:

Exeter

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 59, f. 227r-v (s. xiv)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 253-256 (s. xvi)
3. Exeter, D.C., 2105 (s. xiii)
4. Exeter, D.C., 1705 (s. xiv)
5. Exeter, D.C., 2408 (s. xv)
6. Exeter, D.R.O., E/R 1, ff. 102v-103r (s. xiii)
7. London, British Library, Harley 358, ff. 32r-33v (s. xvi)
8. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, f. 41r-v (s. xvii; incomplete)
9. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 36 Edw. III, no. 16
10. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 29, no. 13
11. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 33, no. 2
12. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 69, no. 1
13. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 85, no. 1
14. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), ff. 3v-4v (s. xvii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 228-9, ex MS 3; K, 729, ex MSS, 1, 7; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 535-6 (no. 10); Thorpe, pp. 309-12; Hingeston-Randolph 1889, pp. 484-5, ex MS 6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 3

Comments:

Larson 1910, pp. 723 n. 14, 725 n. 28, doubtful; Finberg, ECDC, no. 54; Whitelock 1959, p. 81, cited; Chaplais 1966, pp. 4-5, possibly forged at the same time as S 953 (= 1981, XV pp. 4-5); HRH, p. 233, spurious, although subscriptions are mainly consistent; Keynes 1980, pp. 32 n. 53, 100 n. 51, forgery modelled on S 880, cf. S 953; Dumville 1993, p. 80, of uncertain merit; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, p, 238, suspect, local production; Hooke 1994, p. 187; Keynes 1994a, pp. 52 n. 51, 68 n. 145, forgery modelled on S 880, witness-list from genuine text; Foot 2000, II. 88