A.D. 995. King Æthelred to the bishopric of Rochester; restoration of 6 hides or sulungs (mansae or sulunga) at Wouldham and 1 hide (mansa) at Littlebrook, Kent, with swine-pastures in the Weald. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 152r-155r (s. xii 1)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 124-9, incomplete, ex MS*; K, 688, ex Hearne; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no. 69; Campbell, Rochester, no. 31

Comments:

Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 309-13, on place-names; Sisam 1953, p. 158, cited; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xx-xxii, xxvi-vii, on estate history; authentic; Witney 1976, pp. 227-8, 236, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 101-2, 121-2, 179, 253, authentic; Rumble 2002, pp. 207-8, related in phrasing to SS 888, 889, 893