A.D. 693 (13 June). (? Eorcenwald), bishop, to (? St Mary's, Barking); grant of 28 hides (manentes) at Battersea, 20 at Watsingaham (i.e. Washingham, lost, in Battersea) and 20 (cassatae) by Hidaburna (the river Wandle), all in Surrey. The land had been granted to him by Cædwalla, king of Wessex, and confirmed by Æthelred, king of Mercia. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Westminster (probably ex Barking)

MSS:

1. London, Westminster Abbey, W. A. M. I (OS Facs., ii, Westminster 1; Taylor 1925, pl. 2a)

Printed:

B, 82; Hart, ECEE, pp. 135-6; Morris 1995, pp. 127-8, ex B

Comments:

Browning 1891, pp. 209-12; Stevenson 1914, p. 703, dubious or spurious; Westlake 1923, pp. 5-6; Taylor 1925, pp. 9-16, 303-4, topographical discussion; on bounds; PN Surrey, p. 12 n; Hart 1953, pp. 21-6, 11th-century copy of authentic charter with added bounds; Hart, ECEE, pp. 136-41; Chaplais 1968, p. 332 n. 169, step from wrapping-tie, but not original (= 1973, p. 83 n. 169); Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 370, spurious, at least in present form; Whitelock 1975, pp. 7-8, list of witnesses a conflation of those from Cædwalla's grant and Æthelred's confirmation; Cox 1976, pp. 16, 37, 44, on place-names; Gelling, ECTV, nos. 313, 350, authentic basis; bounds; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 306-8, probably genuine but interpolated; Faith 1997, p. 29, cited; Foot 2000, II. 28