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Image: Charter S 344 (Stowe 19) by Archbishop Æthelred in association with King Alfred 973

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Description: Charter issued in 873 by Archbishop Æthelred of Canterbury with King Alfred, granting land to Liaba, son of Brigwine, at Ileden in Kent. According to Simon Keynes at [1] it exhibits the poor standard of Latin at the start of Alfred's reign.
Title: Charter S 344 (Stowe 19) by Archbishop Æthelred in association with King Alfred 973
Credit: Photographed by Dudley Miles from King Alfred the Great, by Alfred Smyth, Plate 20
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