A.D. 873. Alfred, king, and Æthelred, archbishop, to Liaba, son of Birgwine; grant of land at Ileden, Kent, in return for 25 mancuses of gold. Latin with English

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Stowe Charters 19 (s. ix 2; OS Facs., iii. 19; Making of England, p. 261, no. 236; Smyth 1995, pl. 20)

Printed:

B, 536

Comments:

Sweet, OET, p. 440 (no. 32); Stevenson 1904, p. 199 n. 4, a 9th-century hand, the work of a scribe ignorant of Latin, hee seems to have copied twice over the witnesses of a charter of King Æthelwulf; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 160, 221-2, the northern boundary is Bossington, the eastern, Curlswood; identification of Ileden; Hart 1970a, p. 23, on endorsement; Brooks 1979, pp. 15-16, authentic but full of errors; O'Donovan 1972, p. 30, indiction fits 874; Whitelock 1979, p. 77 and n. 6, authentic apart from the witness-lists; Brooks 1984, pp. 172, 360-1 n. 70, contemporary but incompetently drafted and copied, scribe also wrote S 316, 328, 332, 1195-7; Dumville 1987, p. 156 n. 41, on script, treats as contemporary; The Making of England, pp. 261-2 (no. 236); Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. xciv-v, on circumstances of production; Pelteret 1995, p. 227; Smyth 1995, p. 372; Lapidge 1996, pp. 452-3, on latinity; Lowe 2001, Appendix II.21