A.D. 1006 for 1002. King Æthelred to Christ Church, Canterbury; refoundation of the monastic community and confirmation of land at Eastry, Ickham, Bossington, Adisham, Appledore, Swarling, Preston, Graveney, Westwell, Chart and Farleigh, Kent; at Patching, Sussex; at Meopham and Cooling in West Kent; at Walworth, Surrey; at Risborough, Bucks.; at Lawling in Latchingdon, Essex; at Hadleigh and Monks Eleigh, Suffolk; and in Thanet. Latin and English versions

Archive:

Canterbury, Christ Church

MSS:

1. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. A, ff. 78v-79r (s. xv; Latin version)
2. Canterbury, D.C., Reg. P, ff. 24v-25v (s. xiii in.; Latin version)
3. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A. III, ff. 2-7, ff. 2r-3v (s. xi; Latin version)
4. London, British Library, Harley 1757, f. 171r-v (s. xvi; Latin version )
5. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 585, p. 3 (s. xvii; Latin version; extract)
6. London, Lambeth Palace Library, 1212, pp. 327-328 (s. xiii; Latin version)
7. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Berks 20 (S.C. 17734), ff. 9r-10v (s. xviii; Latin version; ex 3)
8. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Tanner 223, ff. 18r-19r (s. xvi 1; Latin version)
9. London, British Library, Cotton Claudius A. III, ff. 2-7, ff. 4r-6r (s. xi; English version)
10. Oxford, Bodleian Library, Gough Berks 20 (S.C. 17734), ff. 11r-12v (s. xviii; English version; ex 9)

Printed:

Alford 1663, iii. 434-5, Latin version; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 284-5 , Latin version; K, 715, Latin version; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 99 (no. 5), Latin version, ex MS 3; Fleming 1997, pp.141-3 (no. 70), Latin version, ex MS 2; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 282-4, English version; K, 715, English version, with end of witness-list printed as last four lines of K 847; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 99 (no. 6), English version, last three lines are end of this witness-list as in K 847

Comments:

Napier and Stevenson, p. 135 n. 1, it must be dated 1001 or 1002; Plummer 1892; 1899, ii, p. 179, spurious; Stevenson in Salter, Eynsham Cart., i. 20 n. 3, spurious; Robinson 1926, p. 238, spurious; PN Bucks., pp. 170, 174; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 313-14, on place-names; Whitelock 1937, p. 461 and n. 6, cannot be later than 1002; Whitelock, Wills, p. 176, of doubtful authenticity; Harmer, Writs, p. 453; Ker, Catalogue, pp. 239-40 (no. 185), art. a, scribe of MSS 3, 9 writing s. xi1; Chaplais 1966a, p. 174, on scribe of MSS 3, 9 (= 1973, p. 59); Hart, ECEE, no. 84, spurious; Hart, ECE, no. 40, spurious; HRH, p. 232, ? for 1002, probably spurious; Hart, ECNE, p. 385, reassesses as authentic; Gelling, ECTV, no. 157 (pp. 77-8, 162), spurious; Keynes 1980, p. 261, spurious; Brooks 1984, pp. 257-9, spurious, discusses scribe of MSS 3, 9; Hart 1992, pp. 461-2, spurious in received form, but contains authentic information; Lapidge 1992, pp. 258-9, forged in 11th century (= 1993, p. 290); Pfaff 1992, pp. 278-9, on scribe of MSS 3, 9; Dumville 1993, pp. 126, disputes identification of scribe of MSS 3, 9; Rushforth 2001, p. 139, scribe of MS 3 not Eadwig Basan