A.D. 944. King Edmund to Sigeric, his minister; grant of 2 sulungs (aratra) at Sibertswold, Kent. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Add. 53710, ff. 222v-223r (s. xiv/xv)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. X, ff. 9-319, f. 62r-v (s. xiii 2)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 104r (s. xiii med.; no bounds)
4. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 20 Edw. II, m. 2
5. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 36 Edw. III, m. 7
6. London, Public Record Office, C 53, 8 Hen. IV, m. 6
7. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 2 Hen. VI, pt 3, no. 5
8. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 4 Edw. IV, pt. 4, m. 29
9. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 14 Hen. VII, pt 1, m. 16
10. London, Public Record Office, E 164/27, f. 82r-v (s. xiii; no bounds)

Printed:

Twysden, X Scriptores, cols 2125-6, ex MS 1; Alford 1663, iii. 89; K, 1132, ex MS 3; K, 1149, ex MS 2; B, 755, ex MS 3; B, 797, ex MS 2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 98; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 27

Comments:

Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, doubtful or spurious; Turner 1915, p. xxxi; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 251, 263-6, on place-names; Drögereit 1935, pp. 383-9, 424, accepted; doubtful; Barker 1949, p. 57, on formulation; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. civ-v, 105-7, authentic charter in favour of a thegn (cf. MSS 1-2, 4-9), beneficiary transformed into a fictitious abbot of St Augustine's in MSS 3, 10. Witness-list (partial) only in MS 10