Where reference to the ‘original scribe’ is made, this refers to the anonymous scribe who copied by far the majority of the
around 1123. ‘Later hand’ and similar expressions thus refer to later scribes or annotators. Dates for the original individual documents (‘texts’) are provided in brackets where known.
Folio numbers are given as either r (recto) or v (verso), meaning the front side and back side of a folio, respectively.
Three vellum leaves smaller than those of the twelfth-century manuscript were inserted at the beginning of the volume by Dr John Harris (c. 1666-1719) after the accidental submersion of Textus in the River Thames or Medway around 1716. The first inserted folio features several inscriptions copied from the previous cover of the manuscript by Harris, which possibly dated from the fourteenth-century rearrangement and rebinding of the quires around the time of Bishop Hamo of Hythe (c.1275-1352) .
The second folio leaf surrounds a portion of the previous bindings that had been annotated by Dean Balcanquel recording the loss and recovery of the manuscript around the time of the English Civil War.
The verso side of the final inserted leaf features a further note of ‘Arabick Numerals’ by Dr Harris and a set of ‘Saxon Characters’ by notable antiquarian Elizabeth Elstob (1683-1756).
Annotations of the original manuscript leaves include those by notable early legal scholar William Lambarde.
The first three texts in the rearranged manuscript are the lawcodes from the kingdom of Kent, the earliest of the Old English legal codes that have survived.
| 1r-3v | Æthelberht’s Code, c. 600 CE1 |
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| This text represents the oldest surviving text written in Old English, as well as the oldest English lawcode.
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| 3v-5r | Hlothere and Eadric’s Code c. 679-6852 |
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| 5r-6v | The Laws of Wihtræd, 6953 |
| Unique to Textus. Wihtræd’s law is more focused on church matters than the laws of his predecessors. |
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| 7r-7v | Hadbot |
| Laws on compensation for injury to those in holy orders. Possibly Archbishop Wulfstan of York, 1002-1023. |
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| 7v-8v | West-Saxon Genealogical Regnal List |
| One of two genealogies in Textus, this one recording a lineage from Christ to the early kings of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms. |
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| 9r-24v | Alfred’s Domboc (‘book of laws’) including Alfred’s Preface, after 893 |
| Within three sections, the first comprising a list of Alfred’s laws. The second, Alfred’s Preface, comprises a translation of most of chapters 20-23 of the book of Exodus (from the Old Testament of the Bible), which includes the Ten Commandments, and a rendering of apostolic law, including chapter 15 of Acts of the Apostles and two verses from the Gospel of Matthew (both from the New Testament of the Bible). The final section is Alfred’s own decrees. |
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| 24v-31v | Ine’s Code, c.7004 |
| Ine was King of Wessex from 689 to 726. Ine’s Code was originally appended to Alfred’s law-code. |
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| 31v-32r | Be blaserum and be morðslihtum (‘Concerning arsonists and murders’), probably 10th century |
| Anonymous and undated, though bearing similarities in language and content to the codes during Æthelstan’s reign, 924-939. |
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| 32r | Forfang: a reward for retrieving stolen property |
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| 32r-32v | Trial by Ordeal |
| Thought to be the earliest of the anonymous codes, this one concerns ordeals. Anonymous and undated, though bearing similarities in language and content to the codes during Æthelstan’s reign, 924-939. Known by its Old English title Ordal. |
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| 32v | Spoil of the Slain, probably late 10th century |
| This anonymous lawcode fragment forbids the robbery of corpses. Possibly Scandinavian in origin as it uses the term niðing meaning ‘outlaw’. |
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| 32v-37r | Æthelstan’s Grately Code, c.924-939 |
| Æthelstan was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 924 to 927 and King of the English from 927 to his death in 939. This code’s main theme is thievery, but it also deals with treachery to lords, exchange and purchase, ordeals, witchcraft and punishment of slaves. Also known as II Æthelstan. |
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| 37r-38r | Æthelstan’s Exeter Code, c.927-939 |
| This code addresses fugitives from law and the corruption of reeves, promising to take strong action against those who defy the law. The code survives only in Textus and a 16th-century transcript. Also known as V Æthelstan. |
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| 38r | Æthelstan’s Thunderfield Code, c.939 |
| This addresses sanctuary for outlaws. This Old English version is unique to Textus, also known as IV Æthelstan. |
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| 38r | The King’s Peace, late 10th century |
| This relates to physical boundaries or limits of the ‘King’s peace’. This Old English version is unique to Textus. |
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| 38v–39v | How to swear an oath |
| Anonymous, unknown date. Concerns instructions for swearing an oath. Also known by its Old English title Swerian. |
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| 39v | Concerning the Mercian Oath |
| Anonymous, but associated with Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, 1002-1023. This relates to the ranking of men by the value of their oaths. Also known by its Old English title Be Mirciscan Aðe. |
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| 39v | Concerning Laws of the Mercians |
| Anonymous but associated with Wulfstan, Archbishop of York, 1002-1023. This provides information on the payment of wergild (the legal value set on a person’s life according to rank) within Mercian society. This text refers to a king’s wergild and therefore can be seen as old-fashioned, as kings in Mercia had long ceased by the time Wulfstan either wrote or emended the law-code, the last king being Ceolwulf II who died in 879. Also known by its Old English title Be Mircna Laga. |
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| 40r-41v | Peace of Edward and Guthrum |
| This text is a forgery. It was not written, as it claims, in the time of King Alfred. Archbishop Wulfstan of York (1002-23) may possibly have fabricated this treaty in an attempt to seek security for the Church in northern England once he became archbishop by reaffirming traditional rights and penalties regarding church sanctuary, crimes in which the Church has an interest, the responsibilities of priests, tithes, fasting, Sunday-work, and sorcery. |
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| 41v-42r | Wergeld |
| Another code concerning wergilds. Anonymous, probably after 946, as closely associated with Edmund’s Second Code, below. |
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| 42r-43r | Edward the Elder’s First code, c.901-24 |
| Edward the Elder was King of the Anglo-Saxons from 899 until his death in 924. |
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| 43r-44r | Edward the Elder’s Second Code (924-5) |
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| 44r-45r | Edmund’s First Code (942-6) |
| The code’s chief concerns are ecclesiastical: clerical celibacy, church dues and alms, and restoration of church buildings. |
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| 45r-46r | Edmund’s Bloodfeud Laws (c. 943-6) |
| Also known as Edmund’s Second Code, the code’s primary concern is the prevention of feuds. |
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| 46r-47r | Æthelred’s Woodstock Code (997) |
| Represents the regulations produced by a royal council meeting at Woodstock that may have taken place in 997. It is largely concerned with criminal surety 'according to English law’, and appears to be paired with Æthelred’s Wantage code (III Atr), also produced in 997, that treats the areas of England that were under Danish law. Also known as I Æthelred. |
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| 47r-47v | King William’s Statute, c. 1066-87 |
| Concerns suits brought between Englishmen and Frenchman, and introduces to the English the Norman concept of trial by combat. This Old English version is unique to Textus. Also known by its Old English title Willelmes Cyninges Asetnysse. |
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| 48r-49v | Æthelred’s Wantage Code (997) |
| This code was issued to the Five Boroughs of the Danelaw, its language contains a good deal of Scandinavian vocabulary. The code is chiefly concerned with the penalties for breach of peace, and includes regulations on the conduct of ordeals, arbitration and the clearance of condemned thieves. It includes perhaps the earliest description of a jury of presentment. This Old English version is unique to Textus, also known as III Æthelred. |
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| 49v-57r | Judgement of God |
| Anonymous, date unknown. This relates to the three trials by ordeal, or ‘exorcisms’: boiling water, red-hot iron, and barley bread and cheese. Also known by its Latin title Iudicia Dei |
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| 57v | Cnut’s Charter for Christ Church, Canterbury (1023) |
| Concerns the granting of the port of Sandwich and related water rights to Christ Church, Canterbury. Includes references to the arm of Saint Bartholomew, referring to a relic, a large cloak and Bartholomew’s gold crown. |
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| 58r-80r | The Institutes of Cnut (c.1066-1123) |
| A Latin translation of Cnut’s Winchester code [I-II Cnut, c. 1023]; certain chapters from the laws of Alfred, Edgar, Æthelred; and various short anonymous treatises. |
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| 80r-81v | Articles of William I |
| The text cannot wholly have been issued by William I, though some of the chapters may represent actual edicts of the king. The text treats issues of oath, murder fine, penalties, witnessing sales, proof based on ethnicity, suretyship, sale of slaves out of the country, and capital punishment (earlyenglishlaws.ac.uk). |
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| 81v-87v | Decretals of Pseudo-Isidore, c.925-950 |
| This text contains excerpts from the Decretals, an influential collection of forgeries, purported to be written by earlier popes, which defend the position of bishops from secular authorities. Mary P. Richards observes: ‘its inclusion at this point of the Rochester law book is most interesting: following the Ten Articles [of William] as it does, the text provides authority from canon law to accompany the new civil code, and thus provides a sign of the growing separation of civil from ecclesiastical law during William’s reign’ (Texts and Their Traditions in the Medieval Library of Rochester Cathedral Priory (1988), p. 49). |
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| 88r-92v | Æthelstan’s London Code (c. 930-40) |
| This text is important for the history of guilds in London. This Old English version unique to Textus Roffensis, also known as VI Æthelstan. |
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| 92v-93r | Æthelstan modifies the penalties for theft (c. 930-39) |
| This primarily relates to the age at which a thief could be executed. The scribe apparently has appended this to the previous code, perhaps not recognising its discreteness. |
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| 93r-93v | Geþincðo or Be wergildum 7 be geðinðum, early-11th-century |
| This is a tract on the change of status, setting down what the criteria for social climbing had been in the past. It was seemingly composed by Archbishop Wulfstan of York (1002-1023) and the context is the social upheaval caused by the Viking attacks. |
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| 93v–94r | Laws of the Northumbrians, mid-10th-century |
| Concerns wergilds for people in Northumbria. Also known by its Old English title Norðleod or Norðleoda Laga. |
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| 94v-95r | Concerning a woman’s betrothal, early-11th-century |
| Also known by its Old English title Wifmannes beweddung. |
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| 95r | Charm for stolen livestock |
| The instructions for giving the charm are written in Old English. The charm itself is a mixture of Latin and Old English and is quasi-Christian, incorporating references to the Cross of Christ and the names of the Old Testament figures Abraham and Job. |
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| 95r–95v | It he bequeathed, late-10th to early-11th centuries |
| A formula for asserting the right to hold bequeathed land. Also known by its Old English title Hit becwæð. |
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| 96r-97v | Henry I’s Coronation Charter, 1100 |
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| 98r-99v | Excommunication curse no. 8, 10th or 11th-century |
| A formula for excommunication of criminals. Also known by its Latin title Excommunicatio VIII. |
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| 99v-100r | Excommunication curse no. 9 |
| Another excommunication formula, date uncertain. Also known by its Latin title Excommunicatio IX . |
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| 101r-101v | Genealogy of the West Saxon English Kings |
| This traces the genealogy from Adam, through his good son Seth, then to various other Old Testament patriarchs, including Noah and his apocryphal son Scyf, who was apparently born on the ark! The genealogy finishes with Edward [the Confessor]. The kings of Mercia, Kent are listed, beginning with Æthelberht (II) son of Whitred, and finishing with the god Woden (Odin), as do several of the other genealogies. The following list follows the format of the previous, although the order is reversed and the list finishes with Christ. |
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| 105r-106v | Roman Popes |
| Begins with Saint Peter and finishes with Celestine III (1191-98). |
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| 107r-107v | Byzantine Emperors |
| As is traditional, the list starts with Constantine the Great, and it finishes abruptly with Leo III (717-741). |
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| 107v-108v | Bishops of Jerusalem |
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| 109r-109v | Bishops of Alexandria |
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| 109v-110r | Popes of Antioch |
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| 110v-116r | Lists of Archbishops of Canterbury and Bishops of England and Scotland |
| Lists of the Archbishops of Canterbury and the Bishops of Rochester, London, Chichester, Winchester, Salisbury, Saint Albans, Wells, Exeter, Worcester, Cheshire, Leicester, Hereford, Lincoln, Norwich, York, Ripon, Durham and Casa Candida (Galloway, Scotland). |
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| 116v | List of twenty-four elders |
| It is not known who these elders were, or the reason for this list. |
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| 116v | Popes responsible for introducing new forms of service into the liturgy |
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| 116v | Names of the seven archangels |
| This is a copy of the brief Nomina archangelorum, a text probably earlier than the end of the 8th cent. |
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| 117r | Notes of liturgy added to the Mass by thee further popes |
| A note on the service of Mass instituted by Popes Celestine, Telesphorus and Sixtus. |
| 119r-119v | Rochester Cathedral foundation charter; King Æthelberht grants land in Rochester |
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| Fraudulent charter, Campbell: ‘of the lowest authority’. Probably in part a fabrication, i.e. a ‘retrospective’ document devised to give legal rights otherwise unrecorded. (Forgeries are common amongst Anglo-Saxon charters.) However, there is the possibility that the Old English boundary clause is indeed very ancient. If this is the case, then the document contains the earliest record of street names and place names in English. |
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| 119v-120v | King Eadberht I of Kent grants ten sulungs* at Stoke in Hoo to St Andrew’s, Rochester; Æthelberht II of Kent confirms this, 738 |
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| 120v-122r | King Æthelbald of Mercia allows the free access of a ship into London to St Andrew’s Rochester, 734; Berhtwulf of Mercia confirms this, c.845 |
| This is likely a copy of the extant ninth-century document, British Library, Cotton Charter, xvii.
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| 122r-123r | King Sigered of Kent grants one and a half yokes at Rochester to Bishop Eardwulf (of Rochester) for enlarging the monastery, 762 |
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| 123r-123v | King Eardwulf of Kent grants the right to pasture swine in three districts, 762 [for 747] |
| Likely genuine, though note Campbell: ‘A charter on swine pasture alone is unusual.’ |
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| 123v-125r | King Offa of Mercia grants twenty sulungs at Islingham, Kent, 764 |
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| 125r-126v | Sigered, king of half Kent, grants twenty sulungs at Islingham, and the right to pasture swine in four districts, 761-764; confirmed by Eanmund of Kent |
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| 126v-127v | King Ecgberht II of Kent grants a village and two yokes of land in Rochester (765), confirmed by King Heaberht of Kent and Offa of Mercia |
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| 127v-129r | King Ecgberht II of Kent grants ten sulungs at Halling, with rights to pasture swine in five districts (765-785) |
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| 129r-130r | King Ecgberht II of Kent grants half a sulung and a marsh at Bromhey, Kent (778) |
| Boundaries of meadows belonging to the estate are added in Old English. This was probably copied from the tenth-century single sheet document, British Library, Cotton Charters, viii. 34. Campbell: ‘This charter seems genuine, although the extant single sheet may be later than the time of grant, and in any event the boundaries are a subsequent addition.’ |
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| 130r-130v | King Ecgberht II of Kent again grants half a sulung and a marsh in the same district (see above) (779) |
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| 130v-131r | King Æthelberht of Wessex and Kent (r. 860-866) grants land with similar boundaries to that granted in the cartulary’s opening charter, purported date 761 |
| Campbell, ‘The basis of this charter is obviously a charter of Æthelberht of Wessex (king of Wessex and Kent, 860-6) [...] The charter has been re-cast to appear to be a charter of 761, recording a grant to Bishop Deora of Rochester (elected c. 770). In the extant single-sheet copy [British Library, Cotton Charters, vi. 4], 761 has been altered to 781.’ |
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| 131r-132r | King Offa of Mercia grants six sulungs at Trottiscliffe, Kent, with the right to pasture swine in three districts (788) |
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| 132r-133r | King Offa of Mercia grants a sulung at Bromhey, 789 |
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| 133r-134r | King Offa of Mercia grants one and half yokes of land at Rochester for enlarging the monastery (789) |
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| 134r-135v | King Æthelberht II of Wessex grants, in return for money, eighty acres and half a village, and also a marsh, 860 [altered to 790]) |
| This is probably a copy of the extant tenth-century document, British Library, Cotton Charters, viii. 29. Campbell: ‘This is a crude forgery.The date was originally 860, and this suits the king and witnesses.But someone has learned (?from 14) the approximate date of Bishop Wærmund, and has altered the date to 790.Whoever altered the date no doubt knew that Æthelberht II of Kent was an eighth-century benefactor of Rochester, but he has still not made his date early enough for that king to be assumed to be the one involved.’ |
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| 135v-136v | Coenwulf of Mercia and Cuthred of Kent grant to Swithun, minister, for his good service and his money, three sulungs and a fourth one nearby at Bromhey, with the use of a fishery and four swine-pastures, 801 |
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| 136v-137r | Coenwulf of Mercia grants three sulungs at Rochester, with the use of six swine-pastures, 811 |
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| 137r-138v | Ecgberht of Wessex makes a general grant of privileges, 823 |
| Campbell: ‘This is a highly suspicious document. The title rex Anglorum [‘king of the English’] is not used by Ecgberht elsewhere, and the year and indiction do not agree. A vague, general grant of priviliges would be [of] most use in the post-Conquest disputes, and the document may be a forgery of that time.’ |
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| 138v-139r | Ecgberht of Wessex grants four sulungs at Snodland and Holborough, with a mill, rights of gathering wood, and of pasturing swine in four districts, and a village (838) |
| Campbell: ‘The form of this document is unusual. Some of the usual elements of the old English charter are missing; in particular there is no sanction. The document would seem to be an abbreviation of a charter.’ This is probably a copy of the extant, tenth-century document, British Libray, Cotton Charters, viii. 30. Note: At the start of the document, in the left margin, there is an annotation in Latin (much later hand) indicating that the exemplar can be found in the Cotton Library. |
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| 139r-139v | Æthelwulf of Wessex two sulungs at Holborough (841) |
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| 139v-140v | Æthelwulf of Wessex grants to his minister, Dunn, ten yokes of land and a village, together with rights in meadow, forest, and marsh near Rochester (855) |
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| 140v-141v | Æthelred I of Wessex grants land partly within and partly to the north of Rochester (868) |
| Probably genuine, but note Campbell: ‘This charter is of unusual form’. |
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| 141v-142v | Æthelwulf of Wessex grants three sulungs at Cuxton with the church of St Michael, 880 |
| Campbell: ‘This is a very doubtful charter. King Æthelwulf died in 858, but this charter is dated 880, the indiction agreeing. [...] the charter is [...] the work of a reckless compiler, who did not disturb himself to ascertain the dates of a king so well known as Æthelwulf, nor recall that 880 would fall in the reign of Ælfred the Great.’ |
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| 143r-144r | Eadmund I grants three sulungs at Malling, Kent, 942-946 |
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| 144r-147r | Will of Byrhtric and his wife Ælfswith, including bequests to St Andrew’s, Rochester, Christchurch, Canterbury, and St Augustine’s, Canterbury (975-987) |
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| 147r-150r | The history of the estate of Wouldham, Kent, from the time of Æthelberht II of Kent (r.748-762) to the time of Archbishop Dunstan (date: 964-988) |
| This is probably a copy of the extant tenth-century document, British Library, Cotton Charters, viii. 20. Includes an Old English and Latin version. |
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| 150r-152r | Eadgar of Wessex grants ten sulungs at Bromley in return for money paid to himself and his præfectus Wulfstan (955) |
| This is a copy of the extant, tenth-century document, British Library, Cotton Charters, viii. 33. : This charter, the Edgar charter, is one of several relating to the estate of Bromley, which was granted, according to another Rochester charter (not actually copied into the TR cartulary), by Æthelberht III to his servant Dryhtwald in 862. The monks of Rochester challenged this in a lawsuit. This Edgar charter aims to record the success of the suit, to ‘strengthen the claim of the priory to Bromley and the other estates involved’ (Campbell, p. xxiv). Campbell (p. xxv) describes the original compiler (not the TR scribe-copyist) of this retrospective record as incompetent. The document is dated 955 even though Edgar did not become king until 959. The list of signatures points to 973. Campbell further suggests that the original Edgar charter dates to 980-987. |
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| 152r–155r | Æthelred II restores six sulungs at Wouldham and one mansa at Littlebrook, 955 |
| Unique to Textus Campbell (p. xxvi) explains that this charter and two others below ‘are excellent examples of Æthelred’s typical charter, which is very long for an Old English charter, and usually adds to the usual charter elements a story to show how the land granted by the king had come into his possession. Sometimes also the king refers to his own youthful indiscretions, and especially to the manner in which bad counsellors had misled him.’ |
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| 156v–159v | Æthelred II restores six sulungs at Bromley and the use of forest in the Weald (998) |
| Campbell (p. xxvii) explains that the king says he is restoring Bromley to Rochester. ‘He had previously robbed the priory of it cruelly and ignorantly, and especially because of the instigation of Æthelsige, who among other offences murdered the king’s reeve.’ |
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| 159v–162r | Æthelred II grants fifteen hides at Fen Stanton and Hilton, Hunts., 1012 |
| The story of the fall of Ealdorman Leofsige is recounted in this document, an event recorded in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle for 1002. As Campbell (p. xxvii) points out, the charter’s version adds to the account the part played by Æthelflæd, the sister of Leofsige. |
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| 162v-163v | History of the Æhtemen (‘Farmers’) in Wouldham, after 1066 |
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| 164v-167r | The Rochester Bridgework List, c.1120 |
| Latin and Old English versions of the charter detailing the requirements for the upkeep of Rochester Bridge. |
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| 168r-170v | The Trial of Penenden Heath (c. 1090) |
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| 170v-171r | William I affirms his grant of Freckenham (in Suffolk) to Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1071 |
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| 171r-172v | Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury confirms the grant of Freckenham to the church of Saint Andrew’s, Rochester (1087) |
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| 172v-173r | Lanfranc grants Fawkham (in Kent) to St Andrew’s, Rochester |
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| 173r-174v | William II grants the manor of Haddenham to Bishop Gundulf for which, in return, Gundulf builds Rochester Castle |
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| 174v-175r | William I grants liberties from the time of King Edward (the Confessor) |
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| 175r | Agreement made in the presence of Lanfranc between Gundulf and Gilbert concerning land held by Gilbert, 1086-1088 |
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| 175r-176v | The dispute between Bishop Gundulf and Pichot, sheriff of Cambridge, occurred between 1077-97 |
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| 177r-178r | List of grants from the time of the foundation by King Æthelberht to Henry I (604-1100) |
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| 179r | Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (from 1093-1109) grants privileges related to the land of the church at Northfleet |
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| 179v | Radulfus, Archbishop of Canterbury (from 1114-1122) confirms his predecessor’s grant of privileges relating to Northfleet, and adds further grants relating to land at ‘Gudelffeld’ (Guddlefield?) |
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| 179v-180r | William, Archbishop of Canterbury (from 1123-1136), grants in perpetuum the privileges related to the land of the church at Northfleet, and confirms Henry I’s grant of the privileges relating to the church at Boxley (Kent) |
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| 181r | William II confirms Countess Goda’s gift of the manor at Estuna |
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| 181v | William II confirms his steward Haimo’s gift of the church at Dartford |
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| 181v-182r | Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury (1093-1109), grants privileges related to the land of the church at Northfleet, including fishing rights |
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| 182r-182v | William II confirms Roger Bigot’s gift of the Church of St Felicity, Walton (Suffolk) |
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| 182v | William II confirms Gilbert of Tunbridge’s gift of the church at Rethavelda (Sussex) |
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| 182v-186v | List of individual benefactors and description of their donations |
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| 185v | An agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Haimo, son of Vitalis, (aka Hamo Dapifer) made in the presence of Archbishop Anselm concerning privileges relating to the church at Stourmouth, 1093-1108 |
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| 186v | Henry I grants the church, land, and tithing rights at Chillesford along with resources and tithing rights of various other churches |
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| 186v-187r | Henry I dedicates various churches and their lands and resources, incl. Dartford |
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| 187r | Henry I grants protection of fishing rights in the Thames |
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| 187r-187v | Henry I confirms Gausfridas Talebot’s gift |
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| 187v | Henry I’s commemoration of the feast of St Paulinus |
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| 187v-188r | William d’Albini, cupbearer to Henry I, grants various resources of the village of Elham |
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| 188r-188v | Henry I’s confirmation of the grant of Elham |
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| 188r-191v | List of benefactors to St Andrew’s, Rochester |
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| 191v | Hugh, in agreement with his wife Emma and his sons, grants land at Southgate |
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| 191v–192r | Goldwin ‘the Greek’ grants land for the expansion of the cemetery |
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| 191r-192v | Robert, son of King Henry I, grants land. |
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| 192v | Agreement with Coc concerning land in Rochester, 1115-1124 |
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| 192v | Grant by Godwin of half his abode |
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| 192v | Agreement with Gosfrid Petit concerning land at Rochester, possibly after 1115 |
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| 193r | Agreement with Geldewine the moneyer concerning land at Rochester, 1115-1124 |
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| 193v | An agreement made between the reeve of Frindsbury and the citizens of Rochester, commuting the customary payment of malt and meal for a rent of six pence from each property, possibly later than 1115 |
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| 193v | Note on the bishop’s provisions from the church at Northfleet |
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| 194v | Note concerning Geoffrey of Delce’s grant of 30 acres near Prestefield in order for his son to become a monk |
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| 195r | Godric de Delce grants an annual tithing |
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| 195r-195v | A settlement agreed between Herebert of Delce and the monks of Rochester concerning the land given to the monks by Herebert's father (1108-24) |
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| 196r–196v | Bishop Gundulf’s arrangements for the monk’s clothing |
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| 196v–197r | Bishop Ernulf grants privileges and lands |
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| 197r | Bishop Ernulf grants funds for building and maintenance |
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| 197r-197v | Bishop Ernulf sets up an alms house in honour of Gundulf |
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| 197v | Ansgot de Rochester grants tithing from Delce and other privileges. |
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| 198r-198v | Election of Avice as the first abbess of Malling, 1108 |
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| 198v | Henry de Port grants financial gifts to the almshouse, 1108 |
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| 198v-199v | The cleric Ralf (Radulfus) concedes land adjoining the Rochester monks’ cemetery, as well as money, to settle a feud with Ernulf |
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| 199v-200r | Goldwine, priest of Rochester, grants a half burgage pertinent to Frindsbury |
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| 200r | Ælfwine grants a half burgage pertinent to Borstal |
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| 200r | Godric, son of Ælwine, brother of Ælric the priest, gives a half burgage of the king’s land |
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| 200v-201r | An agreement made with the wife of Robert Latimer concerning land in Frindsbury |
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| 201v-202v | List of various donors and their gifts |
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| 203r | Confirmation of privileges to Rochester by Archbishop William de Corbeil, 1123-1136 |
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| 203v-204r | Judgment of Imar of Tusculum in favour of the monks of St Andrew’s, 1144 |
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| 204v-205r | Confirmation of privileges by Archbishop Theobald of Bec, 1139-1161 |
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| 206r-208r | Bull of Pope Eugene, 1146 |
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| 209r-210r | A version of the Domesday account of the Rochester fief |
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| 210r–210v | William I gives one hundred pounds shortly before his death |
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| 210v | An agreement between Bishop Gundulf and Eadmer concerning property in London (1077-1108) |
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| 211r-211v | William II grants land in connection with the Church of St Mary’s at Lambeth |
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| 211v–212r | Bishop Gundulf affirms his release to William II of land at Borstal in exchange for three acres of land which were originally granted by bishop Odo as garden for the monks |
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| 211v | William II grants land in connection with Cetenham |
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| 211v-212r | Gundulf affirms the grant of land by Odo, Bishop of Bayeux |
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| 212r-213r | William II grants his manor at Hedenham, held by Archbishop Lanfranc; confirmation by Lanfranc |
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| 213r-213v | Bishop Gundulf confirms a grant by Gilbert the priest of three hides at Haddenham in exchange for Gilbert entering the monastic life |
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| 213v-214v | The account of Gilbert entering the monastic life |
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| 215r-216r | List of royal donations from the year 738, starting with Æthelberht II of Kent, to the reign of William II (r. 1087-1100) |
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| 217r | Record of knights/soldiers of the episcopate |
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| 218r-220r | Henry I confirms the division of lands and privileges between the monks and the bishop at Rochester, followed by a confirmation by Archbishop Anselm, and one by Bishop Gundulf, 1103 |
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| 220r | A note of the funds due the Bishop of Rochester for his episcopal services in the absence of the Archbishop |
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| 220v-222r | Church payments for chrism oil |
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| 222r-223v | Offices and masses to be said for members of monastic houses in confraternity with Rochester |
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| 224r-230r | Catalogue of Rochester Priory library |
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| 230v | Ernulf of Chelsfield confirms the gift of Pivindene and Godriscesdune, 1143 |
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| 232r | Agreement with Stephanus Bidel concerning tithing |
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| 232v-234r | Watch and ward list, 1337 |
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| 234v | Largely illegible list of rents in a later hand. Sawyer includes this as part of the above, but this seems unlikely. |
) features an R within a ringed cross, presumably for Rochester/Roffensis, accompanied by a faint outline image of what might be a skull. There are several short but largely illegible inscriptions.
