A.D. 604 (28 April). Æthelberht, king, to St Andrew and his church at Rochester; grant of land at Rochester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Harley 1866, f. 9r-v (s. xviii)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), f. 119r-v (s. xii 1; facsimile)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 3v (s. xiv)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 27; Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 62-3; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 13-14; K, 1, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 162 (no. 3); HS, p. 52; B, 3, ex HS, Hearne, K, and Mon. Angl; Earle, pp. 3-4, ex K and Hearne; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 1; Pierquin, Conciles, p. 43; Campbell, Rochester, no. 1, ex MS 2; Morris 1995, pp. 101-2, ex B

Comments:

Wallenberg, KPN, p. 3, on place-names and bounds; Deanesly 1941, pp. 101-4; Deanesly 1941a, pp. 53-69; Deanesly 1942, p. 110, authentic; Levison 1946, pp. 174, 223-5, suspicious features; Ward 1949, on topography; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xv, xxii, fabricated, partly based on S 266; Brooks 1974, p. 217, possibly some authentic basis; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 14, cited in discussion of topography; Scharer 1982, pp. 59-60, spurious; Morris 1995, pp. 89-98, authentic.