A.D. 822 (Bydictun, 17 September). Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Mylentun, near Kemsing, Kent, in return for a gold ring worth 75 mancuses. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 93 (s. ix 1; BM Facs., ii. 15)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 198v (s. xii; short version)
3. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. C, f. 203r (s. xv; short version)
4. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 18r (s. xiii in.; short version)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 316 (s. xiii; short version)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), p. 95 (s. xvii; short version)
7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, ff. 12v-13r (s. xvi 1; short version)

Printed:

K, 216, full text; Thorpe, pp. 65-6, full text; B, 370, full text; Earle, pp. 100-2, full text; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 122, full text; Pierquin, Conciles, p. 462, full text; Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2216, short version, ex MS 2; B, 371, short version, from MS 5

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 83 (pp. 514-16)

Comments:

Sweet, OET, p. 458 (no. 55); Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 450, original, discusses royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 64); Stenton 1955, p. 40, on poor latinity; Box 1931, pp. 120-2, on bounds; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 141-5, on place-names; Parsons 1939, p. 14, MS 1 genuine and contemporary; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; John 1966, p. 107 n., original, discusses immunity clause; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Chaplais 1968, p. 325, on indiction (= 1973, p. 75); Brooks 1971, p. 73 n. 4, on immunity; Stenton 1971, p. 292, cited; Finberg 1972, pp. 410, 499; Harrison 1973, p. 64, on date; Harrison 1976, p. 115, on date; Witney 1976, p. 228, on swine-pastures; Sawyer 1978, pp. 181, 187, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 514; Brooks 1984, pp. 135-6, 168, 360 n. 70, on historical background; scribe of MS 1 perhaps Archbishop Wulfred himself, also wrote S 187; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Campbell 1989, p. 27, on counter-payment; Keynes 1993, pp. 114-15, 119, cited; Keynes 1994c, p. 11; Cubitt 1999, pp. 1237-8, compares phrasing with S 1428a; Lowe 2001, Appendix III.43; Hooke 1989a, p. 122, on woodland; Wormald, English Law, p. 108 n. 376