Anglo-Saxon charters
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Anglo-Saxon charters are documents from the early medieval period in England which typically made a grant of land or recorded a privilege. The earliest surviving charters were drawn up in the 670s: th
Likely 11th-century copy of AD 854 Royal Charter issued by King Ethelwulf granting 20 hides of land to the monks of St. Peter at Winchester
The oldest surviving Anglo-Saxon charter, issued by King Hlothhere of Kent in 679
Copy of a 968 charter of King Edgar preserved in a mid-13th-century cartulary from Wilton Abbey
Ismere Diploma, a 736 charter of king Æthelbald of Mercia
Anglo-Saxon law
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Anglo-Saxon law was the legal system of Anglo-Saxon England from the 6th century until the Norman Conquest of 1066. It was a form of Germanic law based on unwritten custom known as folk-right and on w
Anglo-Saxon charters
…land to Reculver Abbey. Some surviving charters are later copies, which sometimes include interpolations. Anglo-Saxon charters were sometimes used in legal disputes, and the recording of the contents of a charter within a legal document has ensured the survival of text when the original charter has been lost…
The initial page of Rochester Cathedral Library, MS A.3.5, the Textus Roffensis, which contains the only surviving copy of Æthelberht's laws.
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