A.D. 1027 x 1035. Writ of King Cnut declaring that he has given to St Augustine the body of St Mildred with all her land and with all the 'customs' belonging to her church. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 46-194v, f. 53v (s. xiv 2; incomplete)
2. Canterbury, D.C., Lit. E 19, f. 1r (s. xiv)
3. London, British Library, Add. 53710, f. 14r (s. xiv/xv)
4. London, British Library, Add. 53710, f. 223v (s. xiv/xv)
5. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 63r (s. xiii 2)
6. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 183r (s. xiii 2)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 85v (s. xiii med.)
8. London, British Library, Harley 6748, f. 21v (s. xvii; incomplete)
9. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 419, ff. 111-60, f. 112r (s. xiv; incomplete)
10. London, Public Record Office, C 52, 9, no. 19 (s. xiii)
11. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 20 Edw. II, m. 2
12. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 36 Edw. III, m. 7
13. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
14. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5
15. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Edw. IV, pt. 4, m. 29
16. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 14 Hen. VII, pt 1, m. 16
17. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, ff. 145v-146r (s. xiii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 84, ex MS 7; Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 1783, 2127, ex MSS 3, 4; K, 1326, ex MS 6; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 449 (no. 2); Harmer, Writs, no. 37, ex MS 7; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 33, ex MSS 7, 10

Comments:

Harmer, Writs, pp. 191-7, 454-7, authenticity uncertain; Sharpe 1991, pp. 353-4, spurious; Lawson 1993, p. 66 n. 29, probably spurious; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. 122, probably spurious, according to a note in MS 10 the pseudo-original had a seal; Foot 2000, II. 131