A.D. 685 x 693, probably 686 x 688 (March). Hodilredus (Æthelred) to Hedilburg (Æthelburh), abbess, for her minster called Beddanhaam (Barking); grant of 40 hides (manentes) at Ricingahaam, Budinhaam, Dagenham, Angenlabeshaam and Widmundes felt (Wyfields in Great Ilford), all probably in Essex. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Barking

MSS:

London, Public Record Office, C 56, 21 (copy 1324)
1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 29 (BM Facs., i. 2; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 187; Hart 1953, facing p. 27 ex Lysons; Lowe, Uncial, pl. 22; Lysons 1796, between pp. 58 and 59; Making of England, p. 45 (no. 28); Wormald 1985, pl. III)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian A. IX, f. 113r-v (s. xvi)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XV, f. 100r (s. xvi)
4. London, Public Record Office, C 47/58/1/30 (Chancery Miscellanea)
5. London, Public Record Office, E 32, Bundle 16, m. 9d (s. xiv)

Printed:

Smith, Bede, pp. 748-9; K, 35, ex MS 1; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 439 (no. 3), ex MS 1; B, 81, ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 13-14, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 17, ex Mon. Angl; Hart 1953, pp. 27-9; Hart, ECEE, pp. 127-8; Morris 1995, pp. 117-18, ex B

Translated:

Hart 1953, pp. 29-30; Whitelock, EHD, no. 60 (pp. 486-8)

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary; Sweet, OET, p. 426 (no. 1); Stenton 1918, pp. 435 n. 11, 438, probably contemporary (= Stenton 1970, pp. 49-50 n. 8, 52); Stenton 1918a, p. 257 n. 6, authentic; Barker 1948, p. 116, original; Hart 1953, pp. 30-1, 36-44, authentic, dates 685 x 687; topographical discussion; Sisam 1953, p. 3 n. 1, copy of late 8th century; Stenton 1955, pp. 10, 92, imitative copy; spurious in context, dates c. 682; Lowe, Uncial, p. 21, the wide separation of words favours a date in the 8th century; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 187, MS 1 is a copy of the 2nd half of the 8th century; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 26-7, late-8th-century copy; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xvii, late-8th-century copy; Wright 1967, pp. 56, 58, on script; Chaplais 1968, pp. 327-32, original charter left incomplete, then bounds, blessing and witness-list added s. viii2, perhaps from a schedule formerly stitched to the parchment, dates ? 687 (= 1973, pp. 78-83); Chaplais 1969, pp. 541-2, on Italian origins of formulation (= 1973, p. 106); Dodgson and Khaliq 1970, pp. 39, 41, 44, on Writolaburna; Stenton 1970, p. 102, probably authentic; Hart, ECE, no. 4, authentic, dates c. 687, identifies Ricingahaam as Rainham and Budinhaam as Barking; Stenton 1971, p. 287, cited; Whitelock 1975, pp. 7-8, dates ? 686 x 688; Bischoff 1976, p. 691, on script, probably original, with witness-list added; Harrison 1976, p. 71, on witnesses; Sawyer 1978, p. 143, cited; Cox 1976, pp. 28, 29-30, 32, 36, 46, 47, on place-names; Whitelock, EHD, p. 486, earliest extant East Saxon charter; Scharer 1982, pp. 26-7, 129-41; Wormald 1985, pp. 9, 25, original, probably drafted by Bishop Eorcenwald; Yorke 1985, pp. 5, 21, 30 n., 33; The Making of England, pp. 44-5 (no. 28); Vince 1990, p. 65, cited; John of Worcester, p. 112 n., on date; Faith 1997, p. 29, cited; Foot 2000, II. 27-8