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Diplomatic Anatomy
Latin
Locus Actionis (Place of Promulgation)
Lat. locus actionis ('the place of the transaction')
The named geographical location where the charter was drawn up, debated, and ratified by the royal assembly or provincial ecclesiastical synod.
Promulgation sites like Clofesho, Chelsea (*Celchyth*), Kingston-upon-Thames, and Tamworth reveal the itinerant nature of Anglo-Saxon kingship and the meeting places of early councils.
“Scripta est haec cartula in loco celebri qui dicitur Clofeshoas, praesidente eidem concilio domino archiepiscopo Athelheardo…”
S 148 — Synodal Act of the Great Council of Clofesho (A.D. 798)
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