A.D. 692. Nothhelm (Nunna), king of Sussex, to Nothgyth, his sister; grant, in order to found a minster, of 33 hides (cassati) at Lidsey, Aldingbourne, Lenstedegate (? Westergate in Aldington) and (North) Mundham, Sussex. Latin

Archive:

Selsey

MSS:

1. Chichester, West Sussex Record Office, Episc. VI/1/2, f. 16v (s. xiv)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii. 115-16; K, 995; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1163 (no. 3); B, 78; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 10; Morris 1995, p. 126, ex B; Kelly, Selsey, no. 2

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 59 (pp. 485-6)

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 703, authentic; Stenton 1918, p. 438, probably authentic (= Stenton 1970, p. 52); Stenton 1918a, p. 258; Ward 1946, pp. 21-2; John 1960, pp. 8, 47, on tenurial aspects; Darlington 1961, p. 20, probably genuine; John 1966, p. 91, mainly genuine; Cox 1976, pp. 16, 21, 23, 35, on place-names; Harrison 1976, p. 69 n. 15, incarnation year probably added in the course of copying; Whitelock, EHD, p. 485, no good reason to reject document as a whole, although date may be a later addition; Welch 1983, pp. 323-31, on formulation; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Edwards 1988, pp. 292-9, mainly authentic, dispositive section interpolated; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 15-22, fundamentally authentic although details of estates almost certainly altered, incarnation year probably acceptable