A.D. 987. King Æthelred to Æthelsige, his minister; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Bromley, Kent. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters viii. 14 (BM Facs., iii. 33)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 6r (s. xiv)

Printed:

Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 186-7; K, 657; Earle, pp. 209-11; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 62; Campbell, Rochester, no. 30

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, p. 302, on place-names; HRH, p. 231, probably original, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell, Rochester, p. xv, xxiv-v, xxvi, MS 1 contemporary; land had been seized from Rochester cathedral; not in any way suspicious; Hart, ECNE, p. 28 n. 3, Winchester formulation, may be a copy; Barker 1977, pp. 182-3, discusses beneficiary and estate history; Sawyer, Burton, p. 41, original; Keynes 1980, pp. 89-90, 246, original; Wormald 1986, pp. 158, 161, on connection with Bromley dispute; Dumville 1993, p. 153 n. 72, last surviving royal diploma written in Square Minuscule; Dumville 1994, pp. 156 n. 125, 161, on script; Kennedy 1995, p. 172 n. 162, on survival of S 864 after land was restored to Rochester; Foot 2000, II. 88