A.D. 762. Æthelberht II, king of Kent, to the minster of SS Peter and Paul (St Augustine's) Canterbury; exchange whereby the minster cedes the half-use of a mill to the royal vill at Wye, Kent, in return for pasture rights in the Weald for its tenant at Chart, Kent. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 69r-v (s. xv in.)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, ff. 130v-131r (s. xiii med.)
3. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 4v (s. xiii; narrative version)

Printed:

K, 108, ex MS 1, 1*; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 325-6, ex MS 1; B, 191, ex Hardwick, K and MSS 1, 1*; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 49; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 11, ex MSS 1, 2, 3

Comments:

Turner 1915, p. xxvi; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 45-6, on place-names; Finberg 1972, p. 499, on mill; Scharer 1982, pp. 113-15, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 45-7, authentic.