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    A.D. 732 (Canterbury, 20 Feb.). Æthelberht II, king of Kent, to Dunn, priest and abbot, and the church of St Mary (Lyminge); grant of land by the river Limen and at Sandtun (Sampton, lost, in West Hythe), Kent. Latin with bounds

    Archive:

    Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)

    MSS:

    1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 91 (s. viii 1; BM Facs., i. 6; Ch.L.A., iii. no. 190)

    Printed:

    K, 77; Thorpe, pp. 20-1; B, 148; Earle, pp. 24-6; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 30

    Translated:

    Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 22-3; Whitelock, EHD, no. 65 (p. 490)

    Comments:

    Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 23-4; BM Facs., iv, p. 7, contemporary; Sweet, OET, p. 428 (no. 6); Stevenson 1914, pp. 696, 703, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 451 n. 84, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 65 n. 8); PN Worcs., p. xxiii n. 1, original; Ward 1931a; Lowe 1935, p. xiii-xiv, trustworthy; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Ch.L.A., iii., no. 190, contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 26, 28, 40, 44, script; king's cross may be autograph; production; Brooks 1971, p. 75, earliest authentic charter to contain an immunity clause for a particular estate; Bischoff 1976, p. 692, original, both states may have been written by the same scribe; Sawyer 1978, p. 143, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 490, undoubtedly authentic; Scharer 1982, pp. 106-10, authentic; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 24, on Sandtun; Wormald 1985, p. 25, original or early copy; Brooks 1988, pp. 95-6, on topography; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxx-lxxxv passim, on Kentish formulation.; Foot 2000, II. 112, 115