A.D. 778 (Canterbury). Egbert, king of Kent, to Deora, bishop of Rochester; grant of a half sulung (aratrum) at Bromhey in Frindsbury, Kent, and a marsh called Scaga. With bounds of appurtenant meadows in Hreodham (? Redham in Cliffe, Kent). Latin with bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 34 (s. viii 2; BM Facs., ii. 4; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 195)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 129r-130r (s. xii 1; facsimile)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 5r (s. xiv)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 82-3; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 187-8; K, 132 and vol. iii. 382-3; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 166-7 (no. 29); B, 227; Earle, pp. 54-5; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 65; Campbell, Rochester, no. 9

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 is rather later; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 56-9, on place-names; Lowe 1935, pp. xiii-xiv, on script; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 195, contemporaneous, probably original, crosses perhaps autograph; Bruckner 1965, pp. 12 n. 3, 28, 40, MS 1 contemporary, bounds added s. xi; script; crosses may be autograph; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Finberg 1972, pp. 406-7, cited with reference to meadow; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xiv, xviii, xxiii, authentic, MS 1 not before c. 800, bounds slightly later; Sawyer 1978, p. 102, original; Scharer 1982, p. 223 n. 44, cited; Brown 1986, p. 129, on script; Stewartby 1998, p. 152