A.D. 742 (Clofeshos). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to the Kentish churches; confirmation of privileges. Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. Canterbury, D.C., M 363 (s. ix 1; OS Facs., i. 1; Campbell 1982, p. 127)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, ff. 195-201v, ff. 195v-196r (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, f. 13r-v (s. xiii in.)
4. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius D. II, f. 28v (s. xvi)
5. London, British Library, Cotton Domitian A. VIII, ff. 47v-48r (s. xi)
6. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 582, p. 106 (s. xviii)
7. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, p. 308 (s. xiii)

Printed:

Spelman, Concilia, i. 230-1; Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2209, ex MS 2; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 86-7; K, 87, ex MSS 4, 7, and witnesses ex MS 1; Johnson, Laws and Canons, pp. 541-2; Thorpe, pp. 26-8; HS, pp. 340-1, ex MS 7; B, 162, ex MS 1; B, 162A, ex K and MSS 4, 5, 7; Earle, pp. 36-9, ex MS 1; Earle, pp. 39-40, ex MS 7; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, n. 38; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 245-6; Fleming 1997, pp. 113-14 (no. 9), ex MS 3

Translated:

Johnson, Laws and Canons, pp. 238-9

Comments:

HS, pp. 340-2, attestations to B 162 spurious, B 162A the best copy; Sweet, OET, p. 432 (no. 17); Stevenson 1914, pp. 692 n. 16, 697 n. 40, 700 n. 49, MS 1 doubtful or spurious; exemption clause inserted in MSS 4 and 7; MS 1 written c. 800; Drögereit 1935, p. 408 n. 4, original; Kuhn 1943, pp. 475-6; Sisam 1953, p. 92 n. 1; Sisam 1953a, p. 310 n. 5, MS 1 not strictly contemporary; Sisam 1956, p. 117 n. 1, MS 1 two or three generations later than 742; John 1960, pp. 67, 70, authentic; Bruckner 1965, p. 12 n. 10, MS 1 9th-century; John 1966, p. 17, treats MS 1 as contemporary; Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, pp. 133-9; Whitelock 1972, pp. 20-1 n. 6, discusses witness-list; Scharer 1982, pp. 187-8, spurious, perhaps forged by Archbishop Wulfred; Wormald 1982, p. 127, MS 1 9th-century; Brooks 1984, pp. 191-3, 196, 317-19, 366 nn. 53 & 60, forged in early ninth century, perhaps by Archbishop Wulfred, witness-list an impossible concoction; Vollrath 1985, pp. 159-61, spurious, but may be based on genuine tradition; Brown 1986, p. 128, on script.; Keynes 1994c, pp. 8 n. 32, 10-11, 12 n. 54, ninth-century forgery; Cubitt 1999, pp. 1235, compares phrasing with S 1428a; Brooks 1993, pp. 217-18, single-sheet typical of Wulfred's scriptorium; Lowe 2001, Appendix III.63