A.D. 780 (Selsey). Oslac, dux of the South Saxons, to the church of St Paul; grant of land at Earnley, Sussex, and Tielæsora; with confirmation by Offa, king of Mercia, A.D. 787 x 796. Latin

Archive:

Selsey

MSS:

1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Cap. 1/17/2 (BA Facs., 2; Ch.L.A., iv, no. 236; Birch 1892; Heron-Allen 1911, plate 27; Making of England, p. 203 (no. 157), face only; Kelly, Selsey, pl. I, opp. p. 64)
2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 18r (s. xiv)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii. 116, ex MS 2; K, 1012, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1163 (no. 6); B, 237, ex MS 2; B, 1334, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 24; Ancient Charters, Introduction, ex MS 1, with translation; Rogers 1981, p. 258, in part; Kelly, Selsey, no. 11

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 76 (pp. 504-5); Heron-Allen 1911, pp. 119-20

Comments:

Gibbons 1860, p. 76, on ineffectual search for MS 1; Birch 1892, on MS 1 and its discovery; Parsons 1939, pp. 22-5, on endorsements; Barker 1947, pp. 97-8; Stenton 1955, pp. 37-8; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 27, 40, 42 n. 160, 45, on script etc; John 1966, p. 25, cited; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xvii, xviii, xxiii, no. 236, on script etc.; contemporaneous, very probably original; Chaplais 1968, pp. 333-5, MS 1 original, written on leaf discarded from psalter (= 1973, pp. 85-6); Stenton 1970, p. 130, MS 1 original, discusses Offa's confirmation; Stenton 1971, p. 211; Bischoff 1976, pp. 692-3, on script; Sawyer 1978, p. 102, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 504, MS 1 contemporary; Rogers 1981; Scharer 1982, pp. 260-1; BA Facs., p. 3, MS 1 original; The Making of England, pp. 202-3 (no. 157); Kelly, Selsey, pp. 48-53, MS 1 original