A.D. 862 (Willherestrio). Æthelberht, king of Wessex and Kent, to Dryhtwald, minister; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Bromley, Kent. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 32 (s. ix 2; BM Facs., ii. 36)

Printed:

K, 287; B, 506; Earle, p. 289, part only; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 2, no. 28; Campbell, Rochester, no. 25

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, later imitation; Deanesly 1942, p 107 n. 11, citing Ker, 10th- or 11th-century imitation of 9th-century charter; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 207-16, on place-names; Forsberg 1970, p. 74, on weardsetl; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xiv-xv, xvi-xviii, xxiv, if later is copy of genuine original, may be contemporary copy, at least before 900; discusses bounds and swine-pastures; Rumble 1976, p. 172, on swine-pastures; Witney 1976, p. 220, on swine-pastures; Brooks 1984, pp. 360-1 n. 70, 9th-century, scribe also wrote S 327, 1276; Wormald 1986, p. 158 n. 41, probably drafted at Rochester; Dumville 1987, p. 158 n. 53, originality not beyond question; Keynes 1994b, p. 1132 n. 5, original; Smyth 1995, p. 378; Lapidge 1996, pp. 450-1, on latinity; Lowe 2001, Appendix II.16