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12Bibliography12 publicationsRecent books and articles that bear on particular charters, with DOI links where they exist.Open →7References to particular charters7 entries · 13 Sawyer numbersNotes on individual charters by Sawyer number, each linking to the Electronic Sawyer and the single sheets.Open →1Correction of errors in the Electronic Sawyer1 entry · 2 Sawyer numbersKnown slips in the online catalogue, recorded here until they are fixed there.Open →
Bibliography 12
- Stephen Baxter, The Earls of Mercia: Lordship and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England (Oxford, 2007), pp. 361-3 (index to citations of charters)
- Susan Kelly, 'Reculver Minster and its Early Charters', Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters: Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, ed. J. Barrow and A. Wareham (Aldershot, 2008), pp. 67-82
- Margaret Gelling, 'Stour in Ismere', Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters, ed. Barrow and Wareham, pp. 83-7
- Simon Keynes, 'Anglo-Saxon Charters: Lost and Found', Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters, ed. Barrow and Wareham, pp. 45-66
- Simon Keynes, 'Edgar, rex admirabilis', and 'A Conspectus of the Charters of King Edgar, 957-75', Edgar, King of the English 959-975: New Interpretations, ed. Donald Scragg (Woodbridge, 2008), pp. 3-58 and 60-80 DOI
- C. P. Lewis, 'Edgar, Chester, and the Kingdom of the Mercians, 957-9', Edgar, ed. Scragg, pp. 104-23
- Julia Crick, 'Edgar, Albion and Insular Dominion', Edgar, ed. Scragg, pp. 158-70
- Lesley Abrams, 'King Edgar and the Men of the Danelaw', Edgar, ed. Scragg, pp. 171-91
- Nicholas P. Brooks, 'The Fonthill Letter, Ealdorman Ordlaf and Anglo-Saxon Law in Practice', Early Medieval Studies in Memory of Patrick Wormald, ed. S. Baxter, et al. (Farnham, 2009), pp. 301-18
- Simon Keynes, 'King Æthelred's Charter for Eynsham Abbey (1005)', Early Medieval Studies, ed. Baxter, et al., pp. 451-73
- Francesca Tinti, 'Si litterali memorie commendaretur: memory snd cartularies in eleventh-century Worcester', Early Medieval Studies, ed. Baxter, et al., pp. 475-97
- Francesca Tinti, Sustaining Belief: the Church of Worcester from c.870 to c.1100 (Farnham, 2010)
References to particular charters 7
(Worcester): King Æthelbald grants land at Ismere to Cyneberht, 736.
(CantCC, ex Reculver), with S 546 (CantCC) and S 1390 (CantCC). See Kelly, 'Reculver Minster', passim.
(Burt 10) and S 863 (Burt 25). See Keynes, 'Anglo-Saxon Charters: Lost and Found', pp. 64-5, for additional text for these two charters, from Alford (1663), apparently with access to 'lost' material from Burton Abbey.
(Chester), and several others: C. P. Lewis, 'Edgar, Chester, and the Kingdom of the Mercians, 957-9', Edgar, ed. Scragg.
(Abing 95): King 'Æthelred' (? for Edgar) grants woodland (? at Claydons in Alveston, Warwicks.) to Leofric, minister, dated 962. For discussion of the boundary-clause, identified as a woodland estate at Claybrooke Parva, Leicestershire, see Barrie Cox, The Place-Names of Leicestershire, Pt 5: Guthlaxton Hundred, English Place-Name Society 88 (Nottingham, 2011), pp. 64-6.
(Tavistock). See Christopher Holdsworth, 'Tavistock Abbey in its Late Tenth Century Context', Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science 135 (2003), 31-58.
(Ramsey): King Edward the Confessor for Ramsey Abbey. For the 12th-century single sheet (not in Sawyer or eSawyer), found at Holkham, see Keynes, 'Anglo-Saxon Charters: Lost and Found', pp. 50-1 (charters of Edgar and Edward the Confessor) and 60 n. 82 (S 1030)
Correction of errors in the Electronic Sawyer 1
S 906, for Burton abbey. The list of estates is copied, in error, from Wulfric's will (S 1536), and thus includes many places which did not form part of the abbey's endowment.
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