A.D. 694 (17 July). Wihtred, king of Kent, to Æbba, abbess; grant of 4 sulungs (aratra) at Humantun in Thanet, Kent. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 61r-v (s. xv in.)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius C. VII, f. 187v (s. xvi/xvii; note)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 102v (s. xiii med.)
4. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, ff. 78v-79r (s. xiii)
5. London, Public Record Office, DL 42/149, f. 107v (s. xvi/xvii; note)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), f. 24r (s. xvii; no witnesses)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 192-3, ex MS 1; Alford 1663, ii. 417; Lewis 1736, pp. 58-9, ex MS 1; Wilkins, Concilia, iv. 746, ex Spelman; K, 37, ex MS 1 etc; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 288-9, ex MS 1; B, 86, ex MS 1* etc; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 44, ex MSS 1, 3, 4

Comments:

HS, p. 242, spurious; Turner 1915, pp. xxxvi-vii, xxxviii-ix, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 437 n. 19, some grounds for confidence (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 15-17, on place-names; Levison 1946, pp. 230-1; Chaplais 1965, p. 50, on formulation (= 1973, pp. 30-1); Chaplais 1968, pp. 316 n. 8, 335-6, suspicious (= 1973, p. 64 n. 8; Whitelock 1976, p. 143, on date and witnesses; Scharer 1982, pp. 86-9, spurious, forged at Winchcombe in early ninth century; Brooks 1984, pp. 102-3, 348 n. 60, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 155-7, probably authentic, has complex relationship with S 156 and CCC 2 (S 1610) from the Christ Church archive.