A.D. 799 (? for 802) (Coleshill, Warwicks.). King Coenwulf to Balthun, abbot; grant of 30 hides (manentes) belonging to Kempsey minster, Worcs., in exchange for 12 hides at Harvington, Worcs. Latin

Archive:

Worcester

MSS:

1. Lost original
2. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. XIII, ff. 1-118, ff. 2r-3r (s. xi 1)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius C. IX, f. 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; from lost original)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., i. 127-8; Hearne, Heming, pp. 5, 451-3, ex Mon. Angl.; Hearne, Heming, p. 565, ex MS 3; K, 176; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 592 (no. 24); B, 295

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, cited; Robinson 1919, p. 9, authenticity uncertain; Stenton 1955, pp. 27-8, fragments of ancient formulas but the date impossible, incarnation year agrees with indiction but is incompatible with reference to Egbert of Wessex; Finberg, ECWM, no. 233, authentic, suggests Ecberht is an error for Berhtric; Hooke 1983, p. 23, on meeting-place; Hooke 1990, p. 91, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 171, accepts date and rejects allusion to peace treaty as antiquarian addition, for the beneficiary cf. S 1262 and pp. 356-7; Keynes 1994c, p. 14 n. 61; Keynes 1998, p. 3, on mention of Ecgberht; Whybra 1990, p. 33