A.D. 1035. Writ of King Cnut declaring that he has granted to Archbishop Æthelnoth all the landed property that Ælfmær had. English

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius B. IV, f. 87, recto (s. xi)

Printed:

K, 1325; Earle, p. 237; Harmer, Writs, no. 30

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 172, 450, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 346-7 (no. 284), art. f; Chaplais 1966, p. 18, copy in Canterbury gospel-book, declaration may originally have reached Canterbury in oral form (= 1981, XV p. 18); Chaplais 1966a, p. 175, contemporary scribe (= 1973, pp. 59-60); Dumville 1983, p. 53, on MS; Brooks 1984, pp. 296, 387 n. 120; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 237