A.D. 748 (London, May). Æthelbald, king of Mercia, to Eadburga, abbess, and her familia in the minsters of St Mary and SS Peter and Paul, Thanet; remission of half the toll due on a ship (? at London). Latin

Archive:

Canterbury, St Augustine's (ex Minster-in-Thanet)

MSS:

1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, ff. 66v-67r (s. xv in.)

Printed:

Lewis 1736, pp. 65-6; K, 98; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 314-16; Thorpe, pp. 31-3; B, 177; Kelly, St Augustine’s, no. 51

Comments:

Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, p. 140, on King Eadberht's subscription; Sawyer 1978, p. 39, cited; Scharer 1982, pp. 119 n., 202-8, fundamentally authentic; Wormald 1985, p. 25, broadly trustworthy; Kelly 1992, on ship-toll privileges; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. lxxxv-xc passim, 177-8, authentic, cf. S 1788.