A.D. 998 (Easter). King Æthelred to St Andrew's church, Rochester; restitution of 6 sulungs at Bromley, Kent, with swine-pastures in the Weald. Latin with English bounds

Archive:

Rochester

MSS:

1. London, British Library, Cotton Vitellius E. V, f. 195r-v (s. xvi)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), ff. 156v-159v (s. xii 1)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRb/Ar2 (Liber Temporalium), f. 8r-v (s. xiv)

Printed:

Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 120-3; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 191-2; K, 700 and vol. vi. 243, ex Hearne; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 4, no 72; Campbell, Rochester, no. 32

Comments:

Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 299-301, 313, on place-names; HRH, p. 232, subscriptions are consistent; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xvi-vii, xxiv-v, xxvi-viii, on bounds; no reason for suspicion, discusses estate history; Rumble 1976, p. 172, on swine-pastures; Witney 1976, p. 220, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1980, pp. 96, 101, 103, 121-2, 179, 255-6, authentic; Wormald 1986, pp. 158-9; Wormald 1988, no. 60; Rumble 2002, pp. 207-8, related in phrasing to SS 885, 888, 889; Wormald, English Law, p. 149 n. 105