A.D. '761' altered to '781'. Æthelberht, king of Wessex and Kent, to Deora, bishop of Rochester; grant of land at Rochester. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters vi. 4 (BM Facs., iv. 5)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 130v-131r (s. xii 1; facsimile)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 85-6; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., p. 17; K, 144; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 167 (no. 31); B, 242, ex Hearne, K and MS 1; Earle, pp. 332-3; Campbell, Rochester, no. 11

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 probably 11th-century; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 3, 59; Levison 1946, p. 224 n., perhaps confusion between charter of 781 (? of Egbert II of Kent) and one of Æthelberht of Wessex (860 x 865); Ward 1949, p. 39; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xiv, xxiii, MS 1 may be s. ix; elements from a Kentish charter of 781 may have been fused with a charter of Æthelberht of Wessex; Lowe 2001, Appendix II.24