ABSTRACT

I provide below a new edition and parallel translation of the so-called ‘Fonthill Letter’ drawn from the forthcoming edition of the Charters of Christ Church Canterbury which Dr Susan Kelly and I are editing for the British Academy series ‘Anglo-Saxon Charters’. The document will be numbered no. 104 in our edition, which is scheduled for publication in three volumes in 2010.4

1 B. Thorpe, Diplomatarium Anglicum Ævi Saxonici (London, 1865), 169−74; J. Earle, Handbook to the Latin Charters and other Saxonic Documents (Oxford, 1888), 162−5; A.J. Wyatt, Anglo-Saxon Reader (Cambridge, 1919), 112−15, 245−7.