A.D. 680 (? for 685). Cædwalla, king, to Wilfrid, bishop; grant of 70 hides (tributarii) at Pagham, Shripney, Charlton, Bognor, Bersted, North Bersted, Crimsham, North and South Mundham (and, in the shortened version, Slindon), all in Sussex, and to the community at St Andrew's church situated on the east of the harbour called Uedringmutha (Pagham Harbour), grant of 10 hides (tributarii) at Tangmere, Sussex. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Augustus ii. 86 (BM Facs., iv. 2)
2. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 384-385 (s. xiii)
3. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, ff. 8r-9r (s. xvi 1)
4. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, f. 195r (s. xii; short version)
5. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 11v (s. xiii in.; short version)
6. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 304-305 (s. xiii; short version)
7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, James 24 (S.C. 3861), pp. 96-97 (s. xvii; short version)
8. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, f. 8r (s. xvi 1; short version)

Printed:

Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2207-8, ex MS 4; K, 18, ex MSS 1, 6; B, 50, ex K and MS 1; Earle, pp. 281-3; Ehwald, Aldhelmi Opera, pp. 510-12, ex K; Morris 1995, pp. 120-2, ex B; Fleming 1997, p. 110 (no. 4), ex MS 5; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 99-101, ex MS 1

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 is 10th-century; Stevenson 1914, pp. 691-6, spurious, MS 1 written c. 975, scribe also wrote S 110 MS 1; Robinson 1921, p. 52; PN Sussex, i. 93; Barker 1947, p. 58, genuinely early; Forsberg 1950, p. 173 n., on boundary mark; John 1960, pp. 8, 64, citing Roper, genuine with interpolations; Stengel 1960, p. 70, spurious; Chaplais 1965, p. 50 n., typical forgery (= 1973, p. 31 n. 24); John 1966, p. 105, interpolated but probably basically genuine; Keynes 1980, p. 64 n. 116, 10th-century forgery; Dempsey 1982, argues for acceptability; Brooks 1984, pp. 240-3, 317, 377 n. 153, 10th-century forgery; script; Edwards 1988, p. 266, citing Brooks, 10th-century fabrication; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 101-3, spurious