S 21
A.D. 700 or 715. Wihtred, king of Kent, to St Mary's Church, Lyminge; grant of 4 sulungs (aratra) at Pleghelmestun and pasture in Romney Marsh. Latin with bounds
Archive:
Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)
MSS:
Printed:
Smith, Bede, pp. 785-6; K, 47; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 452-3 (no. 2); B, 98; Earle, pp. 17-19; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 20
Translated:
Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 19-20; Ward 1936, pp. 11-12
Comments:
Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 20-2; BM Facs., iv, p. 7, 9th century; Stenton 1918, p. 427 n. 19, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 51 n. 5); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 25-7, on place-names; Lowe 1935, p. xiii-xiv, trustworthy, a copy of S 19; Ward 1936, pp. 14-16; Ward 1949, p. 40; Wright 1950, p. 388; Ekwall, D.E.P.N., p. 392, under Romney; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 189, contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 27, 27, 42 n. 158, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xvii, treats as authentic, modelled on S 19; Chaplais 1969, p. 539, (= 1973, p. 103), interpolated version of S 19 produced a century or so later; Stenton 1971, p. 283, cited; Bischoff 1976, pp. 691-2, script probably mid 8th century; Cox 1976, pp. 26, 38, 41, 44-5, on place-names; Whitelock 1976, pp. 142, 144, on date and witnesses; Sawyer 1978, p. 152, 8th-century copy extending grant; Scharer 1982, pp. 94-7, interpolated version of S 19; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 27, on topography; Wormald 1985, p. 25, original or early copy; Brooks 1988, p. 93, on topography.; Foot 2000, II. 112, 115