S 1386
A.D. 1020. Writ of Archbishop Wulfstan informing King Cnut and Queen Ælfgifu (Emma) that Æthelnoth has been consecrated to the see of Canterbury. English.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Add. 14907, 16v-17r (s. xviii)
2. London, Lambeth Palace, 1370, 69v (s. xi)
Printed: K 1314 ex MS 1; Thorpe, p. 313; Earle, p. 232; Harmer, Writs, no. 27 (pp. 182-3) ex MS 2, with translation; Councils and Synods, no. 62 (p. 449).
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 133 (pp. 601-2).
Comments: Harmer, Writs, pp. 171, 448-9, authentic; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 346-7 (no. 284), art. a, on MS 1; Chaplais 1966, p. 17, probably an oral declaration recorded by Archbishop Æthelnoth for his own protection, unlikely that an 'original' documentary record of this declaration existed (= 1981, XV, p. 17); Chaplais 1966/1, pp. 174-5 (= 1973, p. 59); Whitelock, EHD, p. 601, early copy of original letter; Councils and Synods, pp. 447-9; Brooks 1984, p. 290, cited.
+ Wulfstan arcebiscop gret Cnut cyning his hlaford. 7 Ælfgyfe þa hlæfdian eadmodlice. 7 ic cyþe inc leof þæt we habbað gedon swa swa us swutelung fram eow com æt þam biscop Æþelnoþe. þæt we habbað hine nu gebletsod. Nu bidde ic for Godes lufon. 7 for eallan Godes halgan þæt ge witan on Gode þa mæþe. 7 on þam halgan hade. þæt he mote beon þære þinga wyrþe þe oþre beforan wæron Dunstan þe god wæs 7 mænig oþer þæt þes mote beon eall swa rihta 7 gerysna wyrðe. þæt inc byð bam þearflic for Gode. 7 eac gerysenlic for worolde.