A.D. 1038 x 1039. King Harthacnut to St Edmunds Abbey; grant of privileges. Latin

Archive:

Bury St Edmunds

MSS:

1. King's Lynn, Corporation Manuscripts, Ae. 35 (Hervey 1907, facing p. 598)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 286-287 (s. xvi)
3. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.29, ff. 79v-80r (s. xv med.)
4. Cambridge, University Library, Ff.2.33, f. 21r-v (s. xiii 2)
5. Cambridge, University Library, Gg.4.4, ff. 95v-96v (s. xv med.)
6. Cambridge, University Library, Mm.4.19, ff. 87r-90r (s. xii 2)
8. London, British Library, Harley 358, ff. 45v-47r (s. xvi)
9. London, British Library, Harley 638, ff. 31r-32v (s. xiv)
10. London, British Library, Harley 743, ff. 57v-59r (s. xiv med.)
11. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), ff. 18v-20r (s. xvii)

Printed:

K, 761; Goodwin 1855, pp. 113-117; Thorpe, pp. 342-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 6, no. 16 bis

Comments:

Goodwin 1855, pp. 104-8, forged temp. Henry I; Hervey 1907, p. 600, doubtful; Galbraith 1925, p. 224; Robertson, Charters, p. 400, doubtful; Harmer, Writs, pp. 434-5, spurious; Hart, ECEE, no. 92, spurious; Barlow 1970, p. 53 n. 3, unsatisfactory witness-list; Keynes 1980, pp. 113 n. 92, 143 n. 212, spurious; Dumville 1993, pp. 38, 133, cited; Keynes 1994a, p. 60, spurious; Wormald 1995, p. 128, fraudulent; Wormald 1996, p. 123, wholly bogus; Gransden 1982, pp. 70-71, forged under Abbot Baldwin, probably for episcopal-primacy dispute hearing of 1081; Sharpe 2003, pp. 245-6, forged