A.D. ? 860 (altered to 790). Æthelberht, king of Wessex and Kent, to Wærmund, bishop; grant of land at Rochester with a marsh, in return for 15 pounds and 30 mancuses. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 29 (s. ix 2; BM Facs., ii. 35)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 134r-135v (s. xii 1)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 3v (s. xiv; no bounds)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 91-4; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., p. 18-19; K, 285; HS, pp. 651-2; B, 502; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 27; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 506-7; Campbell, Rochester, no. 24

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, probably 11th century; Stevenson 1904, p. 230 n. 2, an 11th-century copy, clearly genuine despite error in date; Stevenson 1914, p. 703 nn. 75 & 76, date altered from 860 to 790, perhaps to identify it with S 130, hand somewhat later than 860 but not 11th-century; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 205-7, on place-names; Deanesly 1942, p. 107 n. 11, citing Ker, 10th- or 11th-century imitation of 8th-century charter; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xiv, xxiv, crude forgery, scribe of MS 1 may also have written S 331; O'Donovan 1973, pp. 93, 96, 99-100, suspect, date altered from 860, witness-list looks genuine; Brooks 1984, pp. 360-1 n. 70, MS 1 is 9th-century, scribe also wrote S 331, 1276; Dumville 1987, p. 158 n. 53, cited; Keynes 1993a, pp. 128-9, on witness-list and historical background; Smyth 1995, p. 378; Keynes 1998, p. 8; Lowe 2001, Appendix II.15