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    A.D. 680. Æthelred, king, to St Peter's Minster, Medeshamstede; grant, appended to a bull of Pope Agatho, of land at Breedon on the Hill, Leics.; Hrepingas (? Repton, Derbys.); Cedenac; Swineshead, Lincs.; Heanbyrig; Lodeshale; Shifnal, Salop.; Costesford; Stretford (? Stretford, Salop.); Wattlesborough and Lizard, Salop.; Æthelhuniglond (? in Kent); and Bardney, Lincs. Latin and English versions

    Archive:

    Peterborough

    MSS:

    1. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Laud misc. 636 (S.C. 1003), ff. 18v-19r (s. xii; English; facsimile)

    Printed:

    Spelman, Concilia, i. 164-6, Latin; Mon. Angl., i. 67-8, Latin; Gunton 1686, pp. 123-8, Latin; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 48-50, Latin; K, 990, Latin; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 379-80 (no. 3), Latin; HS, pp. 155-7, Latin; B, 48, Latin, ex K; K, 990, English; HS, pp. 159-60, English; B, 49, English; Plummer 1892, English; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 6, English

    Comments:

    HS, p. 153, spurious; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, pp. 25, 30, spurious; Stenton 1933, pp. 314-15, a late and clumsy fabrication but the list of ancient possessions of the abbey is probably based on an early record (= Stenton 1970, pp. 180-1); Levison 1946, pp. 200-1, 219, 260, spurious, possibly the work of Guerno; Whitelock 1954, p. 33, spurious; Hart, ECEE, no. 146, spurious; Finberg, ECWM, no. 427, spurious; Hart, ECNE, no. 33, spurious; Rumble 1977, p. 170, on Hrepingas; PN Shrops., i. 263; PN Lincs., ii. 75, Cedenac is not Cadney.; Keynes 1994c, pp. 38 n. 163, 43 n. 183; Breeze 2000e, on place-name; Sawyer 1998, pp. 233, 240-1, Lodeshac probably not Louth