A.D. 604 x 616. Æthelberht, king, to Mellitus, bishop, and St Paul's minster; grant of land at Tillingham, Essex. Latin

Archive:

London, St Paul's

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Lansdowne 364, f. 124r (s. xvii)
2. London, St Paul's DC., W.D., 1, f. 38v (s. xiii med.)
3. London, St Paul's DC., W.D., 4, f. 5v (s. xiii)
4. London, St Paul's DC., Liber B, f. 20r (s. xii; lost)
5. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Dodsworth 10 (S.C. 4152), f. 8r (s. xvii)

Printed:

Mon. Angl., iii. 299; Dugdale, St Paul's, p. 181, ex MSS 2, 4; Dugdale, St Paul's (rev. edn), Appendix, p. 5, ex MSS 2, 4; K, 982, ex Dugdale; Corner 1858, pp. 92-5; HS, pp. 59-60; B, 8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 1; Morris 1995, pp. 108-9, ex B

Comments:

Corner 1858; HS, pp. 59-60, questionable or spurious; Hart 1957, pp. 29-30, on Tillingham; Hart, ECE, no. 1 (pp. 8-9), spurious but may be based on a genuine tradition; Whitelock 1975, p. 4, n. 5, forged; Scharer 1982, p. 62, spurious; Taylor 1992, p. 291 n. 20, unreliable but Tillingham probably a genuine foundation grant; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. lxxiv n. 18, fabrication incorporating a genuine witness-list of c. 670 x 676.