A.D. 686 (June). Eadric, king of Kent, to St Peter's Minster (St Augustine's), Canterbury; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) near Stodmarsh, Kent. Latin with bounds

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 52v-53r (s. xv in.)
2. London, British Library, Cotton Julius D. II, f. 131r (s. xiii med.)

Printed:

K, 27, ex MS 1; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 251-2, ex MS 1; B, 67, ex K etc; Earle, pp. 10-11, ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 15; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 7, ex MSS 1, 2

Comments:

Plummer, Bede, ii. 204, genuine; Maitland 1897, p. 230, on an ancient formula; Stenton 1918, p. 437 n. 19, some grounds for confidence (= Stenton 1970 p. 51 n. 5); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 13-14, on place-names; Ward 1943, p. 23; Chaplais 1965, p. 56+C1121, (= 1973 p. 37); Chaplais 1968, pp. 320-1, on formulation (= 1973 p. 70); Cox 1976, pp. 21, 27, 45, on place-names; Scharer 1982, pp. 68-70, fabrication with some genuine elements; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Campbell 1989, p. 23, on land-sale; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 31-3, generally acceptable, boundary clause perhaps an addition.