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A.D. 1032 (Glastonbury). King Cnut to the church of St Mary, Glastonbury; grant and confirmation of privileges. Latin

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Glastonbury

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity College, R.5.33 (724), ff. 1-19v, f. 14r (s. xiii)
2. Longleat, Marquess of Bath, 39, f. 61v (s. xiv med.; dated 1302 for 1032)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. V, ff. 89v-90r (s. xv)
4. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Rawlinson B 252, ff. 20v-21r (s. xvii)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Wood empt. 1 (S.C. 8589), f. 69r (s. xiv; dated 1030)
6. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, pp. 52-53 (s. xvii)
7. London, Society of Antiquaries, 128, f. 204v (s. xvii; in part)

Printed: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

Mon. Angl., ii. 842; Alford 1663, iii. 503; Hearne, John of Glastonbury, i. 148-50; Hearne, Adam of Domerham, i. 88-9; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 298-9; K, 747; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 44 (no. 66); Thorpe, pp. 327-8; Watkin, Glastonbury Cart., i. 147-8 (no. 206), ex MS 2; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 528-530, Transcription of the Latin text of the charter

Printed and Translated:

Scott 1981, pp. 132-3; Carley, Glast. Chron., pp. 148-9, ex MS 3

Comments: [Sort: By Date | Alphabetically]

Davidson 1884, p. 15, spurious; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 199, spurious; Finberg, ECW, no. 529, authentic basis; Keynes 1980, pp. 140-1 n. 202, spurious; Lawson 1993, pp. 66 n. 29, 239, suspect, drafted or forged at Glastonbury; Keynes 1994a, p. 52 n. 51, spurious; Wormald 1995, p. 128, bogus; Abrams 1996, pp. 15 n. 31, 127-30, 348 n. 148, may have authentic basis, post-Conquest in present form; Kelly, Glastonbury, p. 196, Description of charter contents, labelled 61, p. 530-532, Discussion of charter as a post-Conquest fabrication, its presence in numerous cartularies and manuscripts, the differences between each version of it, and the relation of the historical context of Cnut's reign to the decifering of what truth lies being this forgery