Bookland (law)
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Bookland was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter. Land held without a charter was known as folkland.
A charter of Æthelbald of Mercia from 736, establishing bookland
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
Bookland (law)
…Bookland (Old English: bōcland) was a type of land tenure under Anglo-Saxon law and referred to land that was vested by a charter. Land held without a charter was known as folkland (Old English: folcland). The distinction in meaning between these terms is a consequence of Anglo-Saxon…
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