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  2. Anglo-Saxon charters - Wikipedia

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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 ]

  3. Old English - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. Ancient borough - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Textus Roffensis - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Kentish Old English - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. St Peter's Church, Barton-upon-Humber - Wikipedia

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    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.

  8. Cymenshore - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Ine of Wessex - Wikipedia

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    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.