A.D. 763 or 764. Eadberht II, king of Kent, to Sigeburga, abbess, and her familia at St Peter's Minster, Thanet; remission of toll due on two ships at Fordwich, and on a third at Fordwich and Sarre, Kent. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 68v-69r (s. xv in.)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 86v (s. xiii med.)
3. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, ff. 150r-151r (s. xiii)

Printed:

Lewis 1736, pp. 1-2, ex MS 1; K, 106, ex MSS 1, 1*; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 322-4, ex MS 1; Thorpe, pp. 35-6, ex MS 1; B, 189, ex K and MS 1*; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 53, ex MSS 1, 2, 3

Comments:

Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 43-4, on place-names; Levison 1946, p. 185, on formulation; Ward 1943, pp. 23-4; John 1966, p. 23 n., on identification of donor; Whitelock, EHD, p. 491, cited; Scharer 1982, pp. 210-11, fundamentally authentic but may have been tampered with; Kelly 1992, authentic; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc passim, ciii, 181-2, diplomatic; late medieval tampering with date; authentic, regnal year of MS 1 altered to identify the donor with Eadberht I (d. 748), cf. also S 28, 1612.