A.D. 799 (Tamworth, Staffs.). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Christ Church, Canterbury; restoration of 30 sulungs (aratra) at Charing, 10 at Seleberhtes cert or Bryning lond (Chart) and 4 at Humbinglond in Barham, Kent, previously seized and redistributed by King Offa. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 7 (OS Facs., iii. 7; Ch. L.A., iii, no. 223; Making of England, p. 208 [no. 161])
2. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. A, f. 138v (s. xiii)
3. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. E, f. 40v (s. xiii ex.)
4. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 22v-23v (s. xvii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 388-389 (s. xiii)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, ff. 10v-11r (s. xvi 1)
7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 197r (s. xii; shortened version)
8. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. D, f. 334r (s. xv; shortened version)
9. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 15v (s. xiii in.; shortened version)
10. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 313-314 (s. xiii; shortened version)
11. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, ff. 11v-12r (s. xvi 1; shortened version)

Printed:

Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2212, ex MS 7; K, 1020, ex MSS 2, 5*; K, 1021, ex Twysden and MS 10; B, 293, ex K and MSS 1, 5; B, 294, ex MS 10; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, nos 30, 31; Fleming 1997, p. 118 (no. 15), ex MS 9

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 80 (pp. 510-11)

Comments:

Stenton 1918, p. 446 and n. 61, original, discusses Offa's royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 60 and n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 84-7, on place-names; Stenton 1955, p. 28, cited; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 223, MS 1 is contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 28, 41, 44; John 1966, p. 88; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xviii, xxiii, same scribe probably wrote S 123; production; Chaplais 1968, pp. 332-3, original, single scribe wrote the main text and later added the date and witnesses (= 1973, pp. 83-4); Chaplais 1969, p. 542 n. 145, on formulation (= 1973, p. 107 n. 145); Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, pp. 163-71, discusses constitutional background of Offa's confiscation; Whitelock, EHD, p. 510, original; Wormald 1982, pp. 111, 126-7, on background; Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-8, on meeting-place; Wormald 1983, pp. 110 n. 45, 115-16, notes Alcuinian influence; Brooks 1984, pp. 114-15, 131, 321-2, original; Brown 1986, p. 129, on script; The Making of England, pp. 205, 208 (no. 161); Fleming 1993, p. 121; Cubitt 1995, p. 278, original; Keynes 1994c, pp. 13-4, 19 n. 83