A.D. 697 (April). Wihtred, king of Kent, to Abbess Æbba; grant of 40 hides (manentes) at Hæg. Latin

Archive:

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

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 62r (s. xv in.)
2. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 79r (s. xiii)

Printed:

Lewis 1736, p. 60, ex MS 1; K, 42, ex MS 1 etc; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 291-2, ex MS 1; B, 96, ex MS 1* etc; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 46, ex MSS 1, 2

Comments:

Turner 1915, pp. xxxvii-ix, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 437 n. 19, some grounds for confidence (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 24-5, on place-name; Cox 1976, p. 21, on place-name; Whitelock 1976, pp. 142, 144, on date and witnesses; Rollason 1979, p. 15; Scharer 1982, pp. 91-2, spurious; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy possibly genuine elements; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 160-2, some difficulties, but a genuine charter probably underlies the present text.