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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 The Anglo-Saxon charter can take many forms: it can be a lease (often presented as a chirograph ), a will, an agreement, a writ or, most commonly, a grant of land. [ 1 ]
Old English had four main dialects, associated with particular Anglo-Saxon kingdoms: Kentish, Mercian, Northumbrian, and West Saxon. It was West Saxon that formed the basis for the literary standard of the later Old English period, [ 2 ] although the dominant forms of Middle and Modern English would develop mainly from Mercian, [ citation ...
In charters of the Anglo-Saxon period a haw, or enclosed area within a burh, was often conveyed by charter as if it were an apanage of the lands in the neighbourhood with which it was conveyed; the Norman settlers who succeeded to lands in the county succeeded therewith to houses in the burhs, for a close association existed between the thegns ...
The first part is a collection of documents which includes the Law of Æthelberht, attributed to Æthelberht of Kent (c. 560–616), and the 1100 coronation charter of Henry I of England. The Law of Æthelberht is the oldest surviving English law code and the oldest Anglo-Saxon text in existence.
Kentish was a southern dialect of Old English spoken in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Kent.It was one of four dialect-groups of Old English, the other three being Mercian, Northumbrian (known collectively as the Anglian dialects), and West Saxon.
An Anglo-Saxon charter dated 971 suggests that Barton became a grange attached to this monastery. [1] [2] The earliest graves on the site of the church date from the ninth century, around one hundred years after the southerly cemetery was abandoned.
The earliest surviving manuscript to contain the name is the late ninth-century Manuscript A of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which gives it in the form Cymenesora.Outside the Chronicle, what is generally believed to be the same name is next attested in a thirteenth-century manuscript: this includes a copy of a charter adapted from a charter issued in 957, which gives the form on Cymeneres horan ...
A page from the Parker Library copy (MS 173) at Corpus Christi College, Cambridge of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, which contains the oldest surviving copy of Ine's laws. The earliest Anglo-Saxon law code to survive, which may date from 602 or 603, is that of Æthelberht of Kent, whose reign ended in 616.