S 12
A.D. 689 (July). Oswine, king of Kent, to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's, Canterbury) and Abbot Hadrian; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) of iron-bearing land, formerly belonging to the royal vill at Lyminge, Kent. Latin
Archive:
Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS:
1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 47v (s. xv in.)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 130v (s. xiii med.)
3. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 80r-v (s. xiii)
Printed:
K, 30, ex MS 1 etc; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 226-7, ex MS 1; B, 73, ex MS 1* etc; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 8, ex MSS 1, 2, 3
Translated:
Comments:
Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 18-19; Plummer, Bede, ii. 204, spurious; Stevenson 1904, p. 220, seems to be genuine; Turner 1915, pp. xxiii-iv, despite difficulties it cannot be rejected as a mere forgery, cf. pp. xliii-iv; Stenton 1918, p. 437, some grounds for confidence (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5, p. 52); Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, pp. 125-9; Cox 1976, p. 41, on place-name; Whitelock 1976, p. 143, on date and witnesses; Scharer 1982, pp. 71-3, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 34-6, authentic.; Foot 2000, II. 112