A.D. 716. Æthelbald, king of Mercia, founds a monastery at Crowland, Lincs. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Crowland

MSS:

1. Lost (s. xii; partial facsimile in Hickes, Diss Epist., tabula D, p. 71; Searle 1894, frontispiece)
2. London, British Library, Arundel 178, ff. 29v-30r (s. xvi)
3. London, British Library, Lansdowne 207 c, ff. 96v-99r (s. xvii)
4. London, Public Record Office, C 56, 26, no. 7
5. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 17 Ric. II, pt 1, m. 31
6. London, Public Record Office, C 66, 1 Hen. IV, pt 2, m. 8
7. Oxford, All Souls College, 32, ff. 1r-2r (s. xv)

Printed:

Savile, Ingulph, pp. 851-2; Fulman 1684, pp. 2-4, ex MS 2; K, 66, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 107-8 (no. 2); HS, pp. 296-9, ex K, Mon. Angl; B, 135, ex K and MS 2

Comments:

Hickes, Diss. Epist., p. 73, spurious; Riley 1862, p. 36, spurious; HS, p. 99, spurious; Liebermann 1892, p. 250; Searle 1894, pp. 56-7, 165-6; Stevenson 1896, p. 733 n. 4, spurious, Hickes's facsimile suggests that MS 1 was 12th century; Levison 1946, p. 262, spurious; Chibnall, Orderic Vitalis, ii. pp. xxvii, 338; Scharer 1982, pp. 160-1, spurious; Roffe 1995, pp. 104-8, forgery probably in existence by 1124; bounds may be pre-Conquest; Sawyer 1998, p. 233