A.D. 699 x 716 (Bapchild, Kent). Wihtred, king of Kent, to the churches and monasteries of Kent; grant of privileges and immunity to the churches and monasteries of Kent, with specific prohibition of lay domination over St Peter's at Upmynster, Reculver, Minster-in-Thanet, Dover, Folkestone, Lyminge, Minster-in-Sheppey and Hoo. Confirmation, dated A.D. 716, at a synod at Cloveshoh. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 2 (OS Facs., iii. 2)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. II, ff. 31r-32r (s. xvi)
3. London, British Library, Stowe 853, f. 3r (s. xvii)
4. London, British Library, Stowe 853, ff. 15v-18r (s. xvii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 385-387 (s. xiii)
6. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 195r-v (s. xii)
7. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. A, f. 77r-v (s. xv)
8. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, ff. 12r-13r (s. xiii in.)
9. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. II, f. 28r-v (s. xvi)
10. London, British Library, Harley 636, f. 36r-v (s. xiv; French version)
11. London, British Library, Harley 1757, f. 170r-v (s. xvi)
12. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 307-308 (s. xiii)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 189-90, Full version; Alford 1663, ii. 415-16, Full version; Wilkins, Concilia, iv. 745-6, Full version; HS, pp. 238-40, 300-1, Full version, ex MS 5; B, 91, Full version, ex HS and MSS 1, 2; Morris 1995, pp. 129-34, Full version, ex B; Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2208-9, Short version, ex MS 6; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 57-8, Short version ; K, 996, Short version, ex Twysden and MSS 7, 12; Thorpe, pp. 9-11, Short version ; HS, pp. 242-4, Short version ex MS 12; B, 92, Short version ex HS, K, Thorpe, and MSS 7, 9, 11, 12; B, 93, Short version ex MS 10; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 11, Short version ; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 164-6, Short version ; Fleming 1997, pp. 111-12 (no. 7), Short version ex MS 8

Comments:

HS, pp. 238-42, 300-2; Stevenson 1914, p. 699 n. 48, MS 1 is an 11th-century copy of MS not later than 9th century passages relating to Rochester and Christ Church are probably interpolations; Stenton 1933, p. 324 n. 2, cited (= Stenton 1970, p. 190 n. 2); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 21-4, on place-names; Deanesly 1941a, pp. 44, 51-2; Wright 1950, p. 392; Bishop 1959, p. 95, on script, cf. S 950; John 1960, p. 48, cited with reference to lay domination of minsters; Chaplais 1965, p. 60 n. 105, compares script of MS 1 with that of S 950 (= 1973, p. 42 n. 105); Chaplais 1966, p. 174, forgery, scribe of MS 1 also wrote S 950 and S 914 MS 3 (= 1973, p. 59); Stenton 1970, p. 86 n. 3, doubtful authenticity; Bishop 1971, p. 22, on scribe and script of MS 1; Cox 1976, pp. 16, 20, 21, 23, 25-6, 35, 37, 41, on place-names, Upmynster is a lost place near Minster-in-Thanet; Whitelock 1976, p. 144, probably spurious; Scharer 1982, pp. 100-2, spurious; Brooks 1984, pp. 191-7, 289-90, 366 n. 63, forged in early 9th century, perhaps by Archbishop Wulfred; scribe and script of MS 1; Upmynster; Everitt 1986, pp. 187-9, 377 n. 15, Upmynster is probably Monkton in Thanet; Pfaff 1992, p. 279, on scribe of MS 1; Dumville 1993, pp. 122 n. 59, 131, 139, on scribe (Eadwig Basan) and script of MS 1; Cubitt 1995, pp. 263-4, spurious but witness-list essentially acceptable; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. xvi n. 13; John of Worcester, p. 165 n., on some witnesses.; Keynes 1994c, pp. 8 n. 32, 10-11, 12 n. 54, 17 n. 78, ninth-century forgery possibly incorporating an authentic witness -ist; Cubitt 1999, pp. 1234-6, 1239, compares phrasing with S 1428a; Foot 2000, II. 114, 121