A.D. 786 x 796. Beonna, abbot of Medeshamstede, to Cuthbert, princeps; lease of 10 hides (manentes) at Swineshead, Lincs., in return for 1000 shillings and annual hospitality (unius noctis pastum) valued at 30 sicli, with ultimate reversion to Medeshamstede. Latin

Archive:

Peterborough

MSS:

1. London, Society of Antiquaries, 60, f. 41r-v (s. xii med.)
2. Peterborough, DC., 1, f. 131r (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

K, 165; B, 271; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 85

Comments:

Stubbs 1861a, p. 206, cited; Stenton 1933, pp. 313-14, no reason for suspicion (= 1973, pp. 179-80); Whitelock 1954, p. 33, genuine; Hart, ECEE, no. 147, authentic; Stenton 1971, pp. 484-5, cited; Finberg 1972, p. 460; Campbell 1989, pp. 30, 34, on money-transaction; Faith 1997, p. 162; Keynes 1994c, pp. 35 n. 148, 36-7, authentic; Sawyer 1998, pp. 231, 239