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he Burton Chartulary.* 
[DERBYSHIRE PORTION.] 
By GENERAL THE Hon. GEORGE WROTTESLEY. 
INTRODUCTION. 
A.D. 1002 and 1o04t by Wulfric Spott, who endowed 
it, according to the ‘Annals of Burton,” with the 
greater part of his wide-spread possessions. The date and mag- 
nitude of the endowment, which took place shortly after the 
general massacre of the Danes, who, unsuspicious of danger, were 
dwelling peaceably within the Saxon territories, makes it not 
improbable that it was the result of the remorse felt by one of 
the ministers of King Ethelred for his share in that treacherous 
transaction. This statement, although little more than a surmise, 
* When writing my “‘ Notes ” on the Churches of South Derbyshire, several of 
which used to pertain to the Abbey of Burton, I made every endeavour to obtain 
a sight of the Burton Abbey Chartulary. Bishop Hobhouse kindly searched 
for it among the muniments of the Marquis of Anglesey, but in vain. Since 
then it has been happily discovered, and still more happily placed in the capable 
hands of such a skilled paleeographist as General Wrottesley. General Wrot- 
tesley has transcribed or given abstracts of the whole Chartulary for the forth- 
coming volume of the Salt Archzeological Society of Staffordshire, a most 
laborious task. He has generously allowed all the parts relative to Derby- 
shire to appear in our Journal. Some few parts of the Chartulary relative to 
Derbyshire manors were not fully taken out by General Wrottesley. These 
omissions I have to some extent supplied. For a short charter on folio 9, 
for a description of a charter on folio 16, and for the lists of the tenants on the 
Derbyshire manors Iam responsible. I have to thank the Marquis of Anglesey 
for permission to visit the Strong Room at Beaudesert to make these additions. 
For a few notes, distinguished by a terminal ‘‘Ed.,” I am also responsible. 
General Wrottesley’s ‘‘ Introduction” applies to the whole Chartulary. 
J. CHARLES Cox. 
+ Two of the Chronicles name A.D. 1002 as the date of the foundation of 
Burton. ‘The ‘‘ Annals of Burton” gives the dateas A.D. 1004. The massacre 
of the Danes took place in the former year. 
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