Charters of Burton Abbey - Hardcover

by Sawyer (Author)

This second volume in the "Anglo-Saxon Charters" series contains the thirty-eight documents from the archives of the Abbey of Burton upon Trent. These charters, which date from the tenth and eleventh centuries, include the will of Wulfric and an important group of single sheets discovered in the twentieth century. There are facsimiles of portions of these five documents, and fifteen chrismons are reproduced from the Burton Cartulary in the National Library of Wales, MS Peniarth 390.