A.D. 765 x 785. Egbert, king of Kent, to Deora, bishop of Rochester, and the church of St Andrew; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Halling, Kent, with appurtenant swine-pastures at Bixle, Speldhurst, Mæreden, Rusthall and Teppanhyse, Kent. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 127v-129r (s. xii 1)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 3r (s. xiv)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 79-81; K, 160 and vol. iii. 386; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 166 (no. 28); B, 260; Earle, pp. 57-9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 83; Campbell, Rochester, no. 15

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 703, authentic; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 74-9, on place-names; Du Boulay 1961, p. 1 n., Bixle is not Bexley; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xvi, xxiii, authentic; Sandred 1976; Scharer 1982, pp. 223, 226, authentic, dates to 765 or shortly afterwards, bounds added later; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. 201, on date.; Witney 1976, pp. 234-5, on swine-pastures