A.D. 733 (1 or 24 September). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Ealdwulf, bishop, and the church of St Andrew (Rochester); remission of the toll due on one ship at London; with confirmation (A.D. 844 x 851, Werburgewic) by Berhtwulf, king of Mercia. Latin

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Charters xvii. 1 (s. ix med.; BM Facs., ii. 1; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 197; Making of England, p. 196)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 120v-122r (s. xii 1)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 7v (s. xiv)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 66-8, ex MS 2; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 14-15; K, 78; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 165 (no. 24), pp. 184-5 (no. 70), ex Hearne; Thorpe, pp. 21-3; B, 152, ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 27-8; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 31; Campbell, Rochester, no. 2, ex MS 1

Translated:

Whitelock, EHD, no. 66 (pp. 491-2)

Comments:

BM Facs., iv, p. 7, MS 1 probably 9th century; Stevenson 1914, p. 695 n. 35, 9th-century copy of a presumably genuine charter; Stenton 1918, p. 439 n. 31, probably genuine (= Stenton 1970, p. 53 n. 5); Ch.L.A., iii, no. 197, 9th-century copy; Bruckner 1965, p. 24; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xvi, on use of dorse; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xiv, xxii, authentic, probably 9th-century copy; Brooke and Keir 1975, p. 367, probably authentic; Sawyer 1978, p. 225, cited; Gelling, ECTV, no. 196, authentic; Whitelock, EHD, p. 491, authentic, copy perhaps made at time of confirmation, dates confirmation to c. 844 x 845; Scharer 1982, pp. 196-8, authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly 1992, on ship-toll privileges; The Making of England, pp. 196-7 (no. 151); Keynes 1993a, p. 127, on Berhtwulf's endorsement; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc passim, 169-72, on diplomatic, on relationship with S 86; Lapidge 1996, p. 448, notes that Berhtwulf's brief confirmation is in correct Latin.; Lowe 2001, Appendix III.54