A.D. 1022 (St Æthelthryth's Day = 23 June). King Cnut to Abbot Leofric and Ely Abbey; grant of land at Wood Ditton, Cambs., in exchange for land at Cheveley, Cambs. Latin

Archive:

Ely

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity College, O.2.1 (1105), f. 72r-v (s. xii 2; incomplete)
2. Cambridge, Trinity College, O.2.41 (1145), pp. 95-98 (s. xii med.)
3. Cambridge, University Library, E.D.C. 1, p. 70 (s. xii/xiii)
4. Cambridge, University Library, E.D.R. G/3/28, f. 71r (s. xiii ex.; incomplete)
5. London, British Library, Add. 5819, f. 123v (s. xviii)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. VI, ff. 100r-101r (s. xii 2)
7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud Misc. 647 (S.C. 1595), f. 43v (s. xii; incomplete)

Printed:

Gale, Scriptores XV, pp. 522-3; K, 734, ex Gale and MS 5; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 475-6 (no. 5), ex MS 6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 5; Blake, Liber Eliensis, pp. 150-1, ex 4

Comments:

Larson 1910, p. 725 n. 28; Blake, Liber Eliensis, p. 417; Hart, ECEE, no. 71, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 463 n. 1, on a witness; HRH, p. 233, subscriptions seem consistent but authenticity is not certain; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 239, likely forgery; on production; Keynes 1994a, p. 49 and n. 38, on dating, treats as authentic