A.D. 823. Egbert, king of England, to St Andrew's church, Rochester; grant of privileges. Latin

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 137r-138v (s. xii 1; facsimile)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 97-9; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., p. 22-3; K, 223; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 170 (no. 34); Thorpe, pp. 66-7, in part; Thorpe, pp. 79-80, in full; B, 395; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 127; Campbell, Rochester, no. 18

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, cited; Stenton 1918, p. 451, doubtful (= Stenton 1970, p. 65); Brooks 1971, p. 73 n. 5, of very doubtful authenticity; Campbell, Rochester, p. xxiii, highly suspicious, perhaps post-Conquest forgery; Edwards 1988, pp. 282-5, fabrication partly based on 9th-century records; O'Donovan, Sherborne, p. 8, dubious; Keynes 1993a, pp. 121-2 and n. 50, text 'improved' in transmission, but little doubt that it depends ultimately on a genuine document of the late 820s; Stewartby 1998, p. 152