A.D. 605 (Canterbury). Æthelberht, king of Kent, to St Peter; grant of land to the east of Canterbury for the foundation of a minster. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, p. 310 (s. xvi)
2. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 21v (s. xv in.; facsimile of lost single sheet)
3. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 21v (s. xv in.)
4. Canterbury, City Archives, Roll 1/Z/1, m. 3 (s. xvi)
5. London, British Library, Add. 53710, f. 221v (s. xiv/xv)
6. London, British Library, Add. 53710, ff. 253v-254r (s. xvi)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 61-73, p. 61 (s. xiv)
8. London, British Library, Cotton Cleopatra F. I, p. 236 (s. xvi; no bounds)
9. London, British Library, Harley 358, f. 47v (s. xvi)
10. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, f. 23v (s. xvii)
11. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 20 Edw. II, m. 2
12. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 36 Edw. III, m. 7
13. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
14. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, m. 5
15. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Edw. IV, pt. 4, m. 29
16. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 14 Hen. VII, pt 1, m. 16
17. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), f. 7r (s. xvii)
18. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 120 (S.C. 5061), f. 115r-v (s. xvii)
19. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), f. 20r (s. xvii)
20. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Eng. hist. C. 241, f. 21v (s. xvi)
21. Winchester, Cathedral Library, XXB, f. 157r

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 118-19; Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2123, ex MS 5; Mon. Angl., i. 23, ex ? MS 7; Alford 1663, ii. 76; Somner 1703, Appendix, p. 6, ex ? MS 5; Wilkins, Concilia, iv. 728, ex Spelman; K, 2, ex MS 3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 126 (no. 1); Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 109-10, ex MSS 2, 3; HS, pp. 54-5, ex K etc; B, 4, ex K, HS etc; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 2; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 1, ex MSS 2, 7, 21; Morris 1995, pp. 102-3, ex B

Translated:

Davis 1934, pp. 565-6, ex Twysden, X Scriptores

Comments:

HS, pp. 54-5, spurious or questionable; Turner 1915, p. xx, suspicious; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 4-5, on place-names; Deanesly 1941a, pp. 53-9; Deanesly 1942, p. 104 n. 7; Levison 1946, pp. 174-233, spurious, probably forged in late 11th century; Hunter 1973, on MS 2; Scharer 1982, p. 59, spurious; Kelly 1988, perhaps forged shortly before Conquest; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 4-9, fabrication partly modelled on a lost charter of Æthelberht II (725-62), witness-list may derive from a lost 7th-century source; Morris 1995, pp. 89-98, some authentic basis.