A.D. 605 (Canterbury). Æthelberht, king of the English, to St Augustine for the minster of SS Peter and Paul (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of land to the east of Canterbury. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 137-311, pp. 310-311 (s. xvi)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 46-194v, f. 46r-v (s. xiv 2)
3. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 22r (s. xv in.; facsimile of lost single sheet)
4. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, f. 22r (s. xv in.)
5. London, British Library, Add. 53710, ff. 2v-3r (s. xiv/xv)
6. London, British Library, Add. 53710, f. 254r (s. xvi)
7. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 9r (s. xiii 2)
8. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 84r (s. xiii med.)
9. London, British Library, Cotton Tiberius A. IX, ff. 107-80, ff. 107v-108r (s. xiv)
10. London, British Library, Cotton Vespasian B. XX, f. 277r-v (s. xii 1)
11. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius A. II, f. 6v (s. xii 2)
12. London, British Library, Harley 358, ff. 47v-48r (s. xvi)
13. London, British Library, Lansdowne 447, ff. 23v-24r (s. xvii)
14. London, British Library, Lansdowne 863, f. 90v (s. xvi)
15. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Add. C. 296 (S.C. 27610), f. 77r (s. xvii; ex 11)
16. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dugdale 11 (S.C. 6501), f. 20v (s. xvii)
17. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 165 (S.C. 9991), f. 77, f. 97r (s. xv)
18. Winchester, Cathedral Library, XXB, f. 157r-v (s. xvi)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 119; Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 1761-2, ex MS 5; Mon. Angl., i. 24, ex ? MS 10; Alford 1663, ii. 3; Wilkins, Concilia, iv. 728, ex Spelman; K, 3, ex MS 3 etc; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 110 (no. 36) ex MS 17, i. 126-7 (no. 2) ex 1st edn; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 111-13, ex MS 3; HS, pp. 55-6, ex K etc; B, 5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 3; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 2, ex MSS 3, 8, 10; Morris 1995, pp. 103-4, ex B

Translated:

Davis 1934, pp. 8-9, ex Twysden, X Scriptores

Comments:

HS, pp. 55-6, questionable or spurious; Stevenson 1891, p. 742 n. 22, spurious, forged after 1066; Turner 1915, pp. xx-xxi; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 5, on place-names; Deanesly 1941a, pp. 55-69; Deanesly 1942, pp. 104-10, authentic; Levison 1946, pp. 174-233, spurious, forged in late 11th century; Hunter 1973, on MS 3; Scharer 1982, p. 59, spurious; Sparks and Tatton-Brown 1987, p. 204, on bounds; Kelly 1988, perhaps forged soon after Conquest; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 11-13, spurious, forged on the basis of S 2; Morris 1995, pp. 89-98, some authentic basis.