A.D. 673 for ? 683 (3 Aug.). Cædwalla, king, to Wilfrid, bishop, in order to found a monastery at Selsey; grant of 55 hides (tributarii) at Selsey, Medmerry, Wittering, Itchenor, Birdham, Egesawde, Bessenheie, Brinfast and Sidlesham, with 6 hides (cassati) at Aldingbourne and Lidsey, 6 at Geinstidegate (? Westergate), 8 at (North) Mundham, 8 at [Amberley and] Houghton and 4 at Coldwaltham, all in Sussex. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Selsey

MSS:

1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/1, ff. 23v-24r (s. xiv 2)
2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 16r (s. xiv)
3. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/4 , f. 175v (s. xiv)
4. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/6, f. 73r (s. xiii med.)
5. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/6, f. 233r (s. xv)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii. 115, ex ? MS 2; K, 992, ex MSS 1, 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1162-3 (no. 1); B, 64, ex MSS 1, 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 8; Kelly, Selsey, no. 1, ex MSS 1, 2, 3, 4

Comments:

Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 11, spurious; Stevenson 1914, p. 694 nn. 24 & 25; Robinson 1921, p. 52, impossible witness-list; Peckham 1927; Peckham 1928; Barker 1947, pp. 61-5; John 1960, pp. 8, 13, 37; John 1966, p. 105, probably substantially authentic; Chaplais 1968, p. 316, spurious (= 1973, p. 64); Finberg 1972, p. 436 n. 5, of questionable authority, but no reason to doubt topographical details; Brooks 1984, pp. 240-3, spurious, probably forged in 10th century; Kelly, Selsey, pp. lxii-xv, 5-13, spurious, no authentic information about early endowment, reference to Amberley is a late interpolation