S 19
A.D. 697 or 712 (July). Wihtred, king of Kent, to St Mary's Church, Lyminge; grant of 4 sulungs (aratra) at Pleghelmestun, Kent. Latin with bounds
Archive:
Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)
MSS:
1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 1 (s. vii/viii; OS Facs., iii. 1; Ch.L.A., iii., no. 220; Ward 1936, facing pp.
14, 27; Wormald 1985, p. 18)
2. London, British Library, Stowe 853, f. 2r-v (s. xvii)
3. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 195r (s. xii; note)
4. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, ff. 11v-12r (s. xiii in.; note)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 305 (s. xiii; note)
6. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 9r (s. xvi 1; note)
Printed:
Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2208, ex MS 3; Astle 1807, ex MS 1, with reproduction; K, 43, ex Astle and MS 5; B, 97, ex K and MS 1; Earle, pp. 408-9, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 9; Fleming 1997, p. 11 (no. 6), ex MS 4
Translated:
Comments:
Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 20-2; Sweet, OET, p. 428 (no. 5); Stenton 1918, p. 437 n. 19, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 25-7, on place-names; Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-xiv, trustworthy; Ward 1936, p. 14; Wright 1950, pp. 387-8; Ch.L.A., iii., no. 220, contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 26, 27, 39, 42 n. 158, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xvii, on script; Chaplais 1969, pp. 538-40, original, script and name-forms may show Northumbrian influence place-name later altered to Wieghelmestun, S 21 is an interpolated version(= 1973, pp. 102-5); Whitelock 1976, pp. 142, 144, on date and witnesses; Sawyer 1974, p. 114; Bischoff 1976, pp. 691-2, contemporary; Cox 1976, pp. 38, 41, on place-names; Sawyer 1978, p. 152, on place-name and endorsement; Scharer 1982, pp. 93-7, original; Wormald 1985, pp. 17, 25, 31 n. 48, original; Crick 1988, p. 265, on script; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxiii-v passim, on Kentish diplomatic; Kelly, Selsey, pp. xlvii-viii, on links with South Saxon diplomatic.; Foot 2000, II. 112, 115; Gameson 1999a, p. 325, on script of original