A.D. 1023. King Cnut to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of the port of Sandwich. Latin and English versions

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. Canterbury, D.C., S 259 (Latin; OS Facs., i. 21)
2. Canterbury, D.C., S 261 (Latin; OS Facs., i. 20)
3. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 39 (Latin; OS Facs., iii. 40)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. VIIIa (Latin; BA Facs., no. 34)
5. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v (s. xii; Latin; note)
6. Canterbury, D.C., S 262 (s. xiii; Latin)
7. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. A, ff. 144v-145r (s. xiii; Latin)
8. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. B, f. 171r-v (s. xv; Latin)
9. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. C, f. 55r-v (s. xiii; Latin)
10. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. E, f. 45r (s. xiii ex.; Latin)
11. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. E, f. 200r-v (s. xiii ex.; Latin)
12. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. I, f. 57r-v (s. xiii ex.; Latin)
13. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. O, ff. 180r-181r (s. xiii 2; Latin)
14. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 28r-v (s. xiii in.; Latin)
15. London, British Library, Add. 14907, ff. 20v-21r (s. xviii; Latin)
16. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1370, f. 70r (s. xii; Latin; summary)
17. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 582 (s. xviii; Latin; extracts)
18. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212 (s. xiii; Latin; summary)
19. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. VIIIb (s. xviii; Latin; ex 4)
20. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis) (s. xii 1; Latin; incomplete summary)
21. Canterbury, D.C., S 260 (English; OS Facs., i. 19)
22. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. A, f. 144r-v (s. xiii; English)
23. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. E, ff. 44v-45r (s. xiii ex.; English)

Printed:

K, 737, Latin, full version, ex MSS 1, 2, 6; Thorpe, pp. 314-16, Latin, full version, ex MSS 1, 2, 3, 6; Napier and Stevenson, pp. 27-9 (no. 12), Latin, full version, ex MS 4; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 6 bis, Latin, full version; Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2225-6, Latin, summary version; Hearne, Textus Roffensis, p. 37, Latin, summary version; K, 1328, Latin, summary version; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 99 (no. 4), Latin, summary version; Thorpe, p. 335, Latin, summary version; Fleming 1997, p. 151 (no. 86), Latin, summary version, ex MS 14; K, 737, English version, ex MS 21

Comments:

Napier and Stevenson, pp. 136-51, post-Conquest forgery perhaps founded on genuine charter of Cnut; Robertson, Charters, pp. 406-11, xxvii, authentic; p. xxvii (correction) linguistic forms later than Cnut's time; Ward 1943, pp. 25-6; Harmer, Writs, pp. 177 n. 1, 426, linguistic forms of English version later than Cnut's reign; authenticity not entirely above suspicion; Stenton 1955, p. 17, diplomatically acceptable, either represents or is modelled in minute detail on charter of 1023; Ker 1960, p. 18, scribe of MS 4 identified with one working in 1107; HRH, p. 236, subscriptions are consistent, charter has at least an authentic base; Brooks 1984, pp. 292-4, 388 n. 140, may be a post-Conquest forgery based on a more restricted original diploma of 1023; on script; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 19, on topography; BA Facs., p. 10; Dumville 1993, p. 133, cited; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 169, 237, probably forged; Keynes 1994a, p. 52 n. 51, probably spurious