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A.D. 981 x 988. Archbishop (Dunstan) to King Æthelred; letter concerning estates belonging to the diocese of Cornwall including Pawton in St Breock, Cællwic, and Lawhitton, Cornwall. English

Archive:

Exeter (ex Crediton, ? ex St German's)

MSS:

1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. a. 2 (S.C. 31346), no. XIV (s. x ex.; BA Facs., no. 8)

Printed:

Napier and Stevenson, pp. 18-19 (no. 7) ; Councils and Synods, no. 35 (II)

Comments:

Rundell 1913 ; Robinson 1918, p. 27, interpolated ; Henderson 1925, p. 87, identified Cællwic with Kelly in Egloshayle ; Sisam 1953, p. 124 n. 4 ; Picken 1958, rejects identification of Cællwic with Callington ; Finberg 1960, p. 32 ; Chaplais 1966, pp. 16-19 (no. 18), original, with later interlineations (= 1981, XV, pp. 16-19) ; O'Donovan 1972, pp. 34-5, 36 ; Chaplais 1966a, p. 173, original (= 1973, p. 57) ; Fleming 1985, p. 256 ; Olson 1989, p. 63 ; Hooke 1994, pp. 16-17, 20, on estates ; Kennedy 1995, p. 183 n. 197 ; Thompson 2006, p. 109, on script ; Napier and Stevenson, pp. 102-10, authentic ; Finberg, ECDC, no. 94 ; Whitelock, EHD, pp. 892-3, genuine ; O'Donovan, Sherborne, pp. lv-vi ; BA Facs., p. 8, probably contemporary

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