Provisional Drogereit pdf

The ‘Comes’ Beorhtulf (p. 421) mentioned can only be established with any certainty
in relation to Essex in the year 897 205 , yet we see no link between Essex and
Sherborne.
However, in one respect C. S. 696 is more correct. The charter actually names the
recipient as "ecclesia", whereas in C. S. 695 it is referred to as a "monasterium". The
first Abbot of Sherborne does not appear until 978 206 . This error will have been
caused by the subsequent copier because, at that time, it had long been a monastery.
We can assume a similar case here to that of the two Abingdon charters.
C. S. 703 needs to be investigated with respect to the incorrect dating. The additions,
probably interpolations, may also be queried:
"... per omnipatrantis dexteram, quae Christus est."
"... quandam non modicam telluris particulam ....."
".... tempore quo Wulfstanum archiepiscopum illus constitui ..."
"Hanc praefatam donationem propria et non modica emi pecunia; non solum illam,
quin potius cuncta illius particulatae praedia, basilicae videlicet sancti Petri principis
apostolorum obrizo empta auro, perpetualiter donavi".
There is no boundary description. The dating figures relate partly to 930, partly to
934. The witnesses are correct for 934 with the exception of the unknown bishops
Wulfinus and Frohelmus. The location is totally impossible as far as 934 is
concerned, because Aethelstan would have had to get from Winchester to Nottingham
inside 10 days. The charter also has links to two suspect Worcester documents: 1. I.
C. S. 700, which has some information in common with our charter but immediately
shows itself to be a fake 207 due to its external appearance and the addition of "... Deo
.... quo suffragio. tropheum ex Anolafo rege Norranorum, qui me vita et regno privare
disponit possim armis superando adipisci" and 2. C. S. 701, a charter that is likewise
totally different as regards its text, but which has practically the same dating clause
and witness-list. Wulfinus is here correctly entered as Wulfhun. The location of the
Witenagemot is, however, no better; it is London. This charter probably, or even
certainly, assumed the Eschatocol from the same charter as C. S. 703. This could,
however, only be the case if both seats had been linked in some way. At this point
two Bishops of Worcester were also simultaneously Archbishops of York.
1. Oswald the Reformer, Archbishop from 972-992.
2. Wulfstan the Homiletic Writer, Archbishop from 1002-1116.
205 Chadwick, loc sit., p. 182 and Searle, loc sit., p. 98.
206 Encyclopaedia Brittanica 14 , XX, 494, according to which Sherborne became the Bishop’s See in
Aldhelm’s era (705). In 978 Bishop Wulfsey introduced the Benedictine Rule into the cathedral church
and became the first abbot.
207 Anglo-Saxon Chronicle II, 139: “A spurious grant of Aethelstan to Worcester is…”.
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