A.D. 696 or 711 (March). Wihtred, king of Kent, and his wife Æthelburh to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Littlebourne, Kent. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 61v-62r (s. xv in.)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, ff. 85v-86r (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

K, 41, ex MS 1 etc; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 290-1, ex MS 1; B, 90, ex MS 1* etc; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 9, ex MSS 1, 2

Comments:

Plummer, Bede, ii. 204, spurious; Stenton 1918, p. 437 n. 19, some grounds for confidence (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 21, on place-name; Cox 1976, pp. 24, 30, on place-names; Scharer 1982, pp. 89-90, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 37-8, authentic.