A.D. 930 (3 April, Lyminster, Sussex). King Athelstan to Beornheah, bishop (of Selsey); grant of 4 hides (cassatae) at Medmerry, with woodland at Earnley and meadow outside Chichester, Sussex. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Selsey

MSS:

1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/1, f. 24r-v (s. xiv 2)
2. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 18v (s. xiv)
3. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/6, f. 72r-v (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii. 119, ex MS 2; K, 350, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1165 (no. 15); B, 669; Kelly, Selsey, no. 17

Comments:

Napier and Stevenson, p. 65, authentic; Stevenson 1904, p. 330, n. 6, authentic; Drögereit 1935, p. 366; Barker 1948, pp. 145-8; Bullough 1972, p. 471 n. 38, on Latin vocabulary; Hart 1972, p. 127, cited; Keynes 1980, p. 43 n. 74; Sawyer 1983, p. 295, on meeting-place; Keynes 1988, p. 186 n. 4, product of 'Æthelstan A'; BA Facs., p. 9; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 74-7, authentic basis but seems to have been partly rewritten to include fuller details of appurtenant woodland and meadow; Foot 2000, II. 66, 117