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(p. 433) C. S. 1055: "This is ealra thara landa freols the Eadgar cyning geedfreolsade
Wulfrice his thegne on ece yrfe".
(This is the privilege for all the land (parcels) that King Eadgar released to his Thane
Wulfric for his eternal ownership).
The first instance, C. S. 1066, may be explained fairly satisfactorily if we assume that
it was boc-land that was being transferred. For this reason the charter was drawn up
by the recipient. The charter may therefore have been completed later because the
collaboration of the Witan was not required. It is a different matter with C. S. 1055, a
charter which, based on its legal content, would belong to Type III. Could it have
been the case for instance, as a consequence of the new circumstances since Eadgar
assumed power, that Aethelwold drafted the charter following the negotiations and
then read it out again to the Witan before the transfer, whereas earlier – at the time
when the king enjoyed great power – he would have had the charter produced later by
his scribe, then handing it over by virtue of his own absolute power? (if this had been
the case, on the other hand, he would have had the charter drawn up beforehand
relating to folk-land that had been transformed into boc-land, so as to hand it over
following proclamation before the Witan).
Once again the endorsement is missing in the original C. S. 1082, that differs so
noticeably in the Dispositive section from all other Eadgar A charters. An answer is
therefore all the more difficult to establish here, because the language of the charter
no longer indicates the legal quality of the land.
Even if we cannot produce any decisive answer to the question: "What is the meaning
of the endorsement?", then based on the certainty that it was drawn up during the
latter part of Aethelstan’s reign (i.e. up to approx. 950), we can definitely establish
that they were following a rule here. This however speaks yet again for a central
authority or Chancery used for the production of charters 229 .
Index of Charters
Compiling all charters examined permits us once more to establish that there must have been
a chancery in existence; for virtually every charter written by a scribe goes to a different
recipient. And this, according to Sickel’s definitive assumption, is the most conclusive
evidence of a chancery.
We will list the charters below without further details of the recipient. However, beneath the
number of the “Cartularium” we will enter the initials of the recipient, provided they are one
and the same person. These are as follows:
Ae. co. = Aethelstan comes; Ae. Mi. = Aelfstan minister;
Ead. = Eadric comes; Wulf. = Wulfric minister
(With Wulfric it is only “very probable” that is the same recipient each time. We are
presuming this on the basis that every charter for him is contained in the Abingdon
Cartulary.)
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In this context we would like to draw attention once more to the Anglo-Saxon boundary clause,
which also requires closer examination.
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