A.D. 797 (Glastonbury). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Cynehelm and his successors; confirmation of the freedom of Glastonbury Abbey, previously granted by King Ecgfrith. Latin.
Archive: Glastonbury
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Trinity College, R. 5. 33, 10v-11r (s. xiii)
2. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, p. 47 (s. xvii)
Printed: Hearne, Adam of Domerham, pp. 67-8 ex MS 1; K 1017 ex Hearne etc.; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 46 (no. 80) ex Hearne; B 285 ex Hearne, K and MS 1*.
Comments: Levison 1946, p. 251, accepts this as a translation by William of Malmesbury of an OE version of an early privilege, cf. B 284; Finberg, ECW, no. 400, authentic; Scott 1981, pp. 100, 200 nn. 100-2; Edwards 1988, pp. 52-5, authentic, William of Malmesbury may have found charter at Winchcombe; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 166 n. 107, unreliable; Dumville 1992/1, pp. 53-4 n. 91, suspicious, Glastonbury adaptation of material pertaining to Winchcombe; Cubitt 1995, pp. 276-7, may contain authentic material; Abrams 1996, pp. 23, 148 n. 34, pp. 336-7, 338 n. 98, on textual tradition and historical background.
A.D. 798. (a) Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Oswulf, his dux and minister; grant of land at Hremping wiic, also known as Hafingseota, south of the river Limen, Kent, in exchange for land at Bobingseata. (b) Oswulf grants the land to Lyminge minster. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge)
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 97 (s. viii/ix; BM Facs., i. 12; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 191; Stengel 1960, p. 64)
2. BL Stowe 853, 8v-9v (s. xvii)
Printed: K 175; HS, pp. 514-15; Mon. Angl. (rev edn), i. 453 (no. 3), part only; B 289; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 92; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 396-7.
Translated: Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 29-30.
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 433 (no. 19); Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 30-1; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, original, p. 450, on royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3, p. 64); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 79-82, on place-names; Wright 1950, p. 390; Drögereit 1952, pp. 55-6, spurious, dicusses royal style; Stengel 1960, pp. 41-5, 69-72, authentic; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 191, contemporaneous, probably original, scribe also wrote S 41, MS 2; Bruckner 1965, p. 21 n. 47, on closing formula, p. 29, on script, p. 41, non-autograph crosses; John 1966, p. 21, on royal style, p. 74, original; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Wormald 1983, pp. 109-10, apparent original, discusses royal style, notes Alcuinian influence; Brooks 1984, p. 360 n. 70, on scribe, p. 361 n. 76, contemporary or near contemporary, p. 365 n. 39; Brown 1986, p. 128, on script; Crick 1988, MS 1 fabricated at Christ Church in early or mid 9th century, discusses script and identity and career of Oswulf; Foot 1992, p. 191 n. 148, on formula; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 113, 116, on Oswulf; Cubitt 1995, p. 277, may be later copy of original.
Note: The main text, witness-list and the record of Oswulf's grant to Lyminge were written by a single scribe, who also wrote S 188, 1268 (witnesses only), 1436, 1482 (main text, excluding witnesses and Heregyth's bequest).
A.D. 799 (? for 802) (Coleshill, Warwicks.). King Coenwulf to Balthun, abbot; grant of 30 hides (manentes) belonging to Kempsey minster, Worcs., in exchange for 12 hides at Harvington, Worcs. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 2r-3r (s. xi1)
3. BL Cotton Vitell. C. ix, 130v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
Printed: Mon. Angl. i. 127-8; Hearne, Heming, pp. 5, 451-3 ex Mon. Angl., p. 565 ex MS 3; K 176; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 592 (no. 24); B 295.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, cited; Robinson 1919, p. 9, authenticity uncertain; Stenton 1955, pp. 27-8, fragments of ancient formulas but the date impossible, incarnation year agrees with indiction but is incompatible with reference to Egbert of Wessex; Finberg, ECWM, no. 233, authentic, suggests Ecberht is an error for Berhtric; Hooke 1983, p. 23, on meeting-place; Hooke 1990, p. 91, on estate; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 171, accepts date and rejects allusion to peace treaty as antiquarian addition, for the beneficiary cf. S 1262 and pp. 356-7.
A.D. 799 (Tamworth, Staffs.). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Christ Church, Canterbury; restoration of 30 sulungs (aratra) at Charing, 10 at Seleberhtes cert or Bryning lond (Chart) and 4 at Humbinglond in Barham, Kent, previously seized and redistributed by King Offa. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Stowe Ch. 7 (s. viii/ix; OS Facs., iii. 7; Ch. L.A., iii, no. 223; Making of England, p. 208 [no. 161])
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 138v (s. xiii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. E, 40v (s. xiii)
4. BL Stowe 853, 22v-23v (s. xvii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 388-9 (s. xiii)
6. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 10v-11r (s. xvi)
Shortened version
7. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 197r (s. xii)
8. Canterbury, D. & C. Reg. D, 334r (s. xv)
9. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 15v (s. xii)
10. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 313-14 (s. xiii)
11. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 11v-12r (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2212 ex MS 7; K 1020 ex MSS 2, 5*; K 1021 ex Twysden and MS 10; B 293 ex K and MSS 1, 5; B 294 ex MS 10; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, nos 30, 31; Fleming 1997, p. 118 (no. 15) ex MS 9.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 80 (pp. 510-11).
Comments: Stenton 1918, p. 446 and n. 61, original, discusses Offa's royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 60 and n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 84-7, on place-names; Stenton 1955, p. 28, cited; Ch.L.A., iii, no. 223, MS 1 is contemporaneous, very probably original; Bruckner 1965, pp. 24, 28, 41, 44; John 1966, p. 88; Ch.L.A., iv, pp. xvi, xviii, same scribe probably wrote S 123, p. xxiii, on production; Chaplais 1968, pp. 332-3, original, single scribe wrote the main text and later added the date and witnesses (= 1973, pp. 83-4); Chaplais 1969, p. 542 n. 145, on formulation (= 1973, p. 107 n. 145); Vollrath-Reichelt 1971, pp. 163-71, discusses constitutional background of Offa's confiscation; Whitelock, EHD, p. 510, original; Wormald 1982, pp. 111, 126-7, on background; Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-8, on meeting-place; Wormald 1983, p. 110 n. 45, notes Alcuinian influence, pp. 115-16; Brooks 1984, pp. 114-15, 131, 321-2, original; Brown 1986, p. 129, on script; Making of England, pp. 205, 208 (no. 161); Fleming 1993, p. 121; Cubitt 1995, p. 278, original; cf. S 1259, 1264.
A.D. 799 (17 July). King Coenwulf and his wife Cynegyth to Christ Church, Canterbury; grant of 4 sulungs (aratra) at Giddinge and Wootton, Kent. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 96 (s. x or xi; BM Facs., iv. 7)
2. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. A, 138v-139r (s. xiii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. E, 40v-41r (s. xiii)
4. BL Stowe 853, 8rv (s. xvii)
Printed: K 177 and vol. iii, p. 387; Thorpe, pp. 44-5; B 296.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 10th- or 11th-century; Robinson 1919, p. 28, untrustworthy; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 14-15, 88, on place-names; Levison 1946, pp. 230, 249 n. 3, text is unreliable and seems to be a conflation of S 1610 and 15; Wright 1950, pp. 389-90, MS 1 is a palimpsest in an 11th-century hand; Chaplais 1968, p. 316 n. 8, 335-6, spurious, MS 1 perhaps 11th-century, discusses relationship with S 15 (= 1973, p. 64 n. 8, 86-7); Harrison 1976, p. 118; Scharer 1982 pp. 87-9, probably forged in early ninth century, discusses relationship with S 15, 160; Brooks 1984, pp. 102-3, spurious, may have been modelled on lost 7th-century charter covering same estates; Wormald 1985, p. 25, unreliable later copy, possibly genuine elements; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. 155-7, spurious, probably modelled on S 15.
A.D. 801. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Swithhun, minister; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) at Bromhey in Frindsbury, Kent, one sulung at Æthilwlfing lond, a fishery on the Thames called Fiscnæs, and swine-pastures in Cæstersæta walda, with confirmation by Cuthred (2nd day of Easter, Canterbury) and note of bequest of the land by Swithhun to St Andrew's, Rochester. Latin.
Archive: Rochester
MSS: 1. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 135v-36v (s. xii1; facsimile)
2. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office (Liber Temporalium), 8v-9r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 94-5; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 20-1; K 179; B 303; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 93; Campbell, Rochester, no. 16.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 88-93, on place-names; Campbell, Rochester, pp. xvi, xxiii, authentic; Witney 1976, p. 235, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1993/1, p. 114 n. 12.
A.D. 801 (Chelsea, Middx). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Bishop Wehthun and the church at Selsey; confirmation of 25 (hides) at Denton, Sussex. Latin.
Archive: Selsey.
MS: Chichester, W.S.R.O., Ep. VI/1/2 (Liber B), 18r (s. xiv)
Printed: Mon. Angl., iii. 118; K 1023; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), vi. 1164-5 (no. 13); Thorpe, pp. 45-6; HS, pp. 530-1; B 302; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 3, no. 33; Barker 1948, pp. 126-7 (no. 20) with translation; Kelly, Selsey, no. 14.
Comments: HS, pp. 530-1, questionable; Barker 1948, pp. 127-8; Vollrath 1985, p. 138; Wormald 1988, no. 7; Cubitt 1995, pp. 56, 278; Kelly, Selsey, pp. 61-5, apparently authentic; cf. S 1435.
A.D. 804. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to [Eanberht], their kinsman; grant of 20 sulungs (aratra) at West Lenham, Kent, with thirteen swine-pastures in the Weald. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, St Augustine's
MSS: 1. Cambridge, Trinity Hall, 1, 73rv (s. xv)
2. BL Cotton Jul. D. ii, 93v (s. xiii)
Printed: K 187 ex MS 1; Hardwick, Elmham, pp. 341-3 ex MS 1; B 316 ex Hardwick and MS 1*; Kelly, St Augustine's, no. 16 ex MSS 1, 2.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 93-100, on place-names; Ward 1941, p. 64; Harrison 1973, p. 61, date perhaps emended; Witney 1976, pp. 246-7, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1993/1, p. 114, cited; Kelly, St Augustine's, pp. ciii-iv, 65-70, authentic charter with beneficiary's name altered first to Abbot Wernoth and later to Abbot Cunred, anachronistic subscription of Archbishop Wulfred may reflect conflation of original witness-list with that of a later confirmation.
A.D. 804. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Selethryth, abbess, and her familia at Lyminge; grant of land in Canterbury to serve as a refuge. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church (ex Lyminge).
MSS: 1. Lost original
Short version
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 197r (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 16r (s. xii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 315 (s. xiii)
Printed: Somner 1640, p. 325 ex MS 1; Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2213 ex MS 2; Somner 1703, Appendix, p. 68 ex MS 1; K 188 and vol. iii. 388 ex Somner; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i, 453 (no. 5) ex Somner; B 317 ex Somner; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 100; Fleming 1997, p. 119 (no. 17) ex MS 3.
Translated: Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 31-2; Ward 1941, pp. 63-4; Whitelock, EHD, no. 82 (p. 514).
Comments: Jenkins, Lyminge, pp. 32-5; Ward 1941, on topography; Potts 1943, pp. 19-20, on topography; Sawyer 1978, p. 211, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 514; Tatton-Brown 1984, pp. 7-8, on topography; Brooks 1984, pp. 26, 34-5, 201, treats as authentic, discusses location; Kelly, St Augustine's, p. xxix, on historical background.
A.D. 805 (Acleah). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, and Cuthred, king of Kent, to Wulfhard, priest; grant of 2 hides (manentes), equivalent to one sulung, at Swarling, Kent, and one 'yokelet' (an geocled) at Ecgheanng lond. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Stowe Ch. 9 (s. ix1; OS Facs., iii. 9; Making of England, p. 213 [no. 167])
2. BL Stowe 853, 9v-11r (s. xvii)
Printed: B 321.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 102-5, on place-names; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine; Wright 1950, p. 390; Finberg 1972, p. 415, on assessment; Harrison 1973, pp. 60-1, on date; Brooks 1984, pp. 159-60, on beneficiary, 358 n. 28, MS 1 contemporary; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; PN Dorset, ii. 266 (Acleah); Making of England, pp. 213-14 (no. 167); Cubitt 1995, p. 282, on Acleah.
A.D. 806. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Crowland Abbey; grant of privileges and confirmation of grant of alms in Bucknall, Hallington, Langtoft, Baston and Rippingale, Lincs. Latin.
Archive: Crowland
MSS: 1. BL Arundel 178, 31r (s. xvi)
2. BL Landsdowne 207c, 100r-101r (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, Queen's College, 368, pp. 172-4 (s. xvii)
Printed: Savile, Ingulph, pp. 854-5; Alford 1663, iii. 15; Fulman 1684, pp. 6-7 ex MS 1; K 192; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 108-9 (no. 5); Thorpe, pp. 55-7; Birch, Ingulf, pp. 11-12 ex MS 1; B 325.
Comments: Searle 1894, p. 167; Robertson, Charters, p. 271, suspicious; Roffe 1995, pp. 104-8, post-Conquest fabrication, discusses background to forgery.
A.D. 808 (Tamworth, Staffs., Easter Day, 16 April). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Eadwulf, minister; grant of 1.5 sulungs (aratra) at Cooling, Kent. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 98 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 9)
2. BL Stowe 853, 13rv (s. xvii)
Printed: K 194; B 326.
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 455 (no. 50); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 106-7, on place-names; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 21-2, 24-5, genuine and contemporary; Wright 1950, p. 391; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Chaplais 1968, p. 333, MS 1 original, discusses attached schedule of witnesses (= 1973, p. 84); Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-7, on meeting-place; Brooks 1984, pp. 169-70, 359 n. 67, p. 361 n. 76, MS 1 original, Canterbury formulation although issued at Tamworth and covering land in Rochester diocese; Kelly 1990, p. 44, cited with reference to schedule of witnesses; cf. S 293.
A.D. 809 (Croydon, Staffs.). Coenwulf, king of Mercia and Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 7 sulungs (aratra) at Barham, Kent, in return for 30 pounds. Confirmed at Canterbury in A.D. 810. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 390 (s. xiii)
Printed: B 328.
Comments: Stenton 1918, p. 450 and n. 74, authenticity by no means certain (= Stenton 1970, p. 64 and n. 3); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 107-9, on place-names; Brooks 1984, pp. 170, 361 n. 76, treats as authenticauthentic; Keynes 1993/1, p. 114, cited, p. 115, discusses witness-list, p. 116; cf. S 1616.
A.D. 811. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Beornmod, bishop; grant of 3 sulungs (aratra) to the south of Rochester (at Borstal), Kent, with appurtenant swine-pastures in the Weald. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Rochester.
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Ch. viii. 31 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 10)
2. London, Soc. Ant., 175, 186r (s. xviii)
3. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office, DRc/R1 (Textus Roffensis), 136v-137r (s. xii1; facsimile)
4. Maidstone, Kent Archives Office (Liber Temporalium), 4r (s. xiv)
Printed: Hearne, Textus Roffensis, pp. 96-7; Thorpe, Reg. Roff., pp. 21-2; K 198; B 339; Campbell, Rochester, no. 17.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 a later imitation; Stevenson 1914, p. 697 n. 41, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 121-4, on place-names; Stenton 1970, p. 131 n. 2, contemporary; Campbell, Rochester, p. xiv, later than 811 but not significantly so, rather suspicious in form, p. xvi, refers to Borstal (cf. endorsement), p. xxiii, authentic; Witney 1976, pp. 235-6, on swine-pastures; Dumville 1987, p. 11.
Note: Written in stages by two co-operating scribes, the first responsible for the main text and witness-list, the second for alterations, the addition of the names of swine-pastures and the dating clause.
A.D. 811. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Rethun, abbot of Abingdon; grant of 10 hides (manentes) at Longworth, Berks, and 18 hides at Aclea, Northtuna and Punningstoce, with the restitution of 15 hides at Sunningwell, 10 hides at Eaton, 10 hides at Sandforda (probably Dry Sandford), 30 hides at Denchworth and Goosey, land at Culham, 10 hides at Ginge and 10 at Leckhampstead (all Berks, except Culham, Oxon.), in return for 120 pounds and 100 hides (mansiones). Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MS: BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 106v-107r (s. xii)
Printed: K 208; Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 24-5; B 352; B 850 (duplicate); Kelly, Abingdon, no. 8.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 23, spurious; PN Berks., i. 254, ii. 469, 472, spurious; Gelling, ECTV, no. 17, spurious, regnal and incarnation years incompatible; Edwards 1988, pp. 185-7, spurious but probably adapted from a genuine charter of Coenwulf; Cubitt 1995, p. 284, substantial forgery; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 8, spurious, although forger has made use of some early documentation; cf. S 183.
A.D. 811 (9 November). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, founds Winchcombe Abbey. Latin.
Archive: Winchcombe
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Tib. E. iv, 13v-14r (s. xii)
2. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 30r-31v (s. xvii)
3. Bodleian, Dodsworth 65, 1v-3r (s. xvii)
4. Bodleian, Rawl. B. 252, 8v-9v (s. xvii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 189-90; K 197; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 301-2 (no. 4); Thorpe, pp. 59-61; HS, pp. 572-4; B 338; Royce 1892, i. 18-21; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 107; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 447-9.
Comments: HS, pp. 572-5, questionable as to date and details; Stevenson, Asser, p. 229 n. 1, dubious; Levison 1946, pp. 253-9, spurious but may be based on an 811 synodal charter and another earlier document naming King Cuthred; Finberg, ECWM, no. 56, citing Levison, spurious but genuine basis possible; Campbell 1989, p. 35, not entirely genuine but some authentic basis probable; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 41-2, 166, spurious, discusses history of Winchcombe; Cubitt 1995, p. 284, undoubted forgery but based on a genuine synodal acta of 811; Bassett 1996, p. 166; cf. S 1861, from the same archive.
A.D. 811 (London, 1 August). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 2 sulungs (aratra) at Appincg lond in Rainham, 2 sulungs at Suithhunincg lond at Graveney near Faversham, and 2.5 hagae in Canterbury, all in Kent, in return for 126 mancuses. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 10 (s. ix1; BM Facs., i. 14)
2. BL Stowe Ch. 10 (s. x1; OS Facs., iii. 10; with interpolation)
3. BL Stowe 853, 13v-15r (s. xvii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 402-3 (s. xiii; ex 2)
5. Bodleian, James 24, pp. 12-13 (s. xvii; incomplete)
Printed: K 196 ex MS 1; HS, pp. 570-1 ex K; Thorpe, pp. 57-9; B 335 ex MSS 1, 2, 4; Earle, pp. 86-9 ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 106; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 445-7.
Comments: Sweet, OET, pp. 455, 456 (nos 48, 51); Stevenson 1914, p. 696 n. 35, MS 1 is original and MS 2 was copied c. 1000 with an interpolation, MS 2 has imitative features; Stenton 1918, p. 450 n. 73, MS 1 original (= Stenton 1970, p. 64 n. 2); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 113-20, on place-names; Ward 1934/1, on bounds and estate history; Drögereit 1935, p. 408 n. 4, authentic; Parsons 1939, p. 14, MS 1 genuine and contemporary; Levison 1946, p. 254, MS 1 original; Wright 1950, pp. 391-2; Stenton 1971, p. 292, cited with reference to reservation clause; Sawyer 1978, pp. 159, 211, cited; Brooks 1984, pp. 15, 138, 353 n. 29, 360 n. 70, 361 n. 76, MS 1 original; Brown 1986, p. 128, on script of MS 1; Witney 1987 on political background; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 114, 117, cited.
Note: Scribe of MS 1 also wrote S 177. MS 2 is a later copy with an interpolated passage relating to a sulung in Romney Marsh (with Latin bounds) and a sulung in Elmsted, Kent (with vernacular bounds). The scribe of MS 2 also wrote S 111.
A.D. 812. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) at Graveney and a 'yokelet' (ioclet) at Caseborne (lost) in Cheriton, Kent, in exchange for 1 sulung (equivalent to 2 manentes) at Swarling, Kent, and a 'yokelet' at Ecgheang lond. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: Canterbury, D. & C., Chart, Ant. C. 1278 (Red Book, no. 6; s. ix1; OS Facs., i. 6; Pal. Soc., ser. i, 11)
Printed: K 199; B 341; Earle, pp. 89-92; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 108.
Comments: Sweet, OET, pp. 456-7 (no. 52); Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, cited; Stenton 1918, p. 450 n. 73, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 64 n. 2); Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 124-5, on place-names; Ward 1934/1, on bounds: Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Forsberg 1950, p. 122 n.; Stenton 1971, pp. 281-2, cited; Finberg 1972, p. 415, on unit of assessment; Brooks 1984, pp. 138, 353 n. 29, 359 n. 67, original; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, compares script to that in Paris, BN, lat. 10861; Fleming 1993, p. 117; cf S 161, 1617.
A.D. 812 (London, 31 October). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 20 iugera at Ibentea in the Faversham district and a further 2 in the same area. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 390-1 (s. xiii)
Printed: B 340.
Comments: Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 107-9, 124, on place-names; Ward 1934/1, on estate history and topography; Stenton 1970, p. 131 n. 2, seems genuine; Brooks 1984, pp. 138, 353 n. 29, treats as authentic; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 114, cited, 129 n. 89, note on witness-list.
A.D. 814 (Tamworth, Staffs.). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his familia at Worcester; grant of 8 hides (manentes) at Sture, in exchange for 12 hides at Guiting, Gloucs. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 169rv (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 374-5; K 206; B 351; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 115.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 698, n. 44, genuine; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, no serious exception need be taken (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Finberg, ECWM, no. 58 (pp. 44, 99), authentic; Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-7, on meeting-place; Hooke 1990, pp. 93-4, Sture unidentified; Foot 1992, p. 191 n. 48, on a formula.
A.D. 814 = 813 (Tamworth, Staffs., 26 December). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his familia at Worcester; remission of renders due from Worcester and its dependent minsters, in exchange for the minster at Twyning, Gloucs., assessed at 3 hides (manentes), and 10 hides west of the Severn. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Add. 46204 recto (s. xi)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 10rv (s. xi1)
3. Bodleian, Dodsworth 78, 32rv (s. xviii; ex 2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 23-4; B 350; Stevenson 1911, pp. 204-6; Pierquin, Receuil, pt 1, no. 112.
Translated: Jones 1958, pp. 74-5.
Comments: Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 253-4, the 10 hides west of the Severn may have been in Queenhill parish; Finberg, ECWM, no. 57, authentic, S 185 is a postscript to this transaction; Stenton 1971, p. 289, cited; Harrison 1973, p. 62, on date; Sawyer 1983, pp. 296-7, on meeting-place; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 132, on background; cf. S 185.
A.D. 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Swithnoth, his comes; grant of 1 sulung (aratrum) near Chart Sutton, Kent, with swine-pastures. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Harley Ch. 83 A. 1 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 14)
2. BL Harley 4660, 21rv (s. xvii)
Printed: K 207; B 343; Earle, pp. 96-8.
Translated: Cowper 1915.
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 late-9th-century; Stevenson 1914, p. 697 n. 41, contemporary; Cowper 1915, on identifications; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 125-32, on place-names; Witney 1976, p. 248, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1993/1, p. 114, charter from Worcester archive; Cubitt 1995, pp. 284-5, contemporary.
A.D. 814 = 813 (26 December). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to the church of Worcester; grant of 1 hide (cassata) at Dunhampstead in Himbleton, Worcs. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 185v-186r (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 415-16; K 202 and vol. iii. 388-9; B 349; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 111.
Comments: Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 135-6, on bounds; Finberg, ECWM, no. 240, authentic; Hooke 1990, pp. 105-7, on bounds, with map p. 106.
Note: This is partly based on S 172 and partly on S 95, an earlier charter covering a nearby estate, which has provided part of the witness-list. The vernacular bounds are much later than the alleged dated of the grant.
A.D. 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 10 sulungs (aratra) at Bexley, Kent, with swine-pastures. Latin with English bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 77 (s. x ?; BM Facs., ii. 12)
2. BL Stowe Ch. 11 (s. x ?; OS Facs., iii. 11)
3. BL Stowe 853, 20rv (s. xvii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 391 (s. xiii)
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5. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 198v (s. xii)
6. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 18r (s. xii)
7. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 316 (s. xiii)
8. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 12v (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col 2216 ex MS 5; K 204 ex MS 1; B 346 ex MSS 1, 2, 4; B 347 ex MS 7; Earle, pp. 94-6 ex MS 1; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 113; Fleming 1997, pp. 123-4 (no. 24) ex MS 6.
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 457 (no. 54); Stevenson 1914, p. 703, authentic; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 133-40, on place-names; Wright 1950, pp. 392-3; Du Boulay 1961, pp. 1-2, on bounds; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script, 'chancery minuscule'; Rumble 1976, p. 175, on a swine-pasture; Witney 1976, pp. 219-20, on swine-pastures; Keynes 1993/1, p. 114 n. 23, seems to be a forgery modelled on S 176.
A.D. 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 30 iugera at Bingley's Island, Canterbury. Latin.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 404-5 (s. xiii)
Printed: Somner 1640, pp. 508-9, ex MS 1; Somner 1703, Appendix, pp. 12-13; K 205 ex Somner; B 344 ex Somner and MS 2; Earle, pp. 98-9; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 114.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 703, genuine; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 132-3, on place-names; Ward 1941, pp. 67-8, on topography; Potts 1943, p. 20, on topography; Tatton-Brown 1984, p. 7, on topography; Brooks 1984, pp. 170, 361 n. 76, treats as authentic; Keynes 1993/1, p. 114, cited.
A.D. 814 (Bearwe, 25 November). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of one sulung (aratrum) at Cynincges cua lond, Kent (? Kingsland (lost) in Faversham hundred), in return for 7 pounds of gold and silver. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 74 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 13; Brown 1986, pl. II; Making of England, p. 215 [no. 169])
2. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, pp. 403-4 (s. xiii)
Printed: K 201; B 348; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 110.
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 45 (no. 53); Stevenson 1914, p. 689 n. 3, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 28, 140, on place-names; Ward 1934/1, on estate; Parsons 1939, p. 14, MS 1 genuine and contemporary; Drögereit 1952, pp. 55-6, spurious; Stenton 1955, p. 39 n. 1, on poor latinity; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script, 'chancery minuscule'; Brooks 1971, p. 70, contemporary, discusses immunity; Finberg 1972, p. 410, cited; Brooks 1984, p. 360-1 n. 70, p. 361 n. 76, MS 1 contemporary, scribe also wrote S 177; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Dumville 1979, p. 11; Crick 1988, p. 264 and n. 89, on script; Making of England, p. 215 (no. 169); Keynes 1993/1, p. 114, cited.
A.D. 815 (Wychbold, Worcs., 19 March). Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 1 hide (manens) at Seleberhting lond in the district of Faversham, Kent, in return for a ring of 23 mancuses. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MS: BL Stowe Ch. 12 (s. ix1; OS Facs., iii. 12; Brown 1986, pl. III)
Printed: B 353.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, contemporary; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 124-5, 140, on place-names; Ward 1934/1, on estate; Parsons 1939, p. 14, genuine and contemporary; Sawyer 1983, p. 298, on meeting-place; Brooks 1984, pp. 138, 169, Worcester formulation, p. 359 n. 67, contemporary; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, script compared to that in Paris, BN, lat. 10861; Campbell 1989, p. 27, on counter-payment; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 114, 118, cited.
A.D. 816. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his clergy at Worcester; grant of privileges for land at Hallow, Spetchley, Himbleton, Ravenshill in Tibberton, Worcs.; Lapworth, Warwicks.; and at Oddingley and Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs. Latin with English bounds of Hawling, Gloucs., and with the bounds of Hallow, in English, inserted.
Archive: Worcester.
MS: BL Cotton Tiberius A. xiii, 152r-154r (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 337-40; K 209 and vol. iii. 389-90; B 356; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 116.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, doubtful or spurious; Grundy, Worcs. 1927, pp. 120-5, on bounds of Hallow; Houghton 1931, p. 16 n., on identification of Hawling; Grundy, Gloucs., pp. 132-41, on bounds of Hawling; Ker 1948, pp. 59, 67-8, untrustworthy (wrongly citing K 592); PN Gloucs., cf. pt iv, p. 219; Finberg, ECWM, no. 189 and pp. 184-96, discusses the fabrication of this charter in 11th century and traces bounds of Hawling; Hart, ECNE, p. 382, corrects Finberg's discussion of bounds of Hawling; Hooke 1990, pp. 107-12, on bounds of Hallow, with map p. 110; Aldred and Dyer 1991, pp. 139-44, on bounds and estate history of Hallow; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 138; Dyer 1996, pp. 192-3, on Hawling.
A.D. 816. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his clergy at Worcester; grant of privileges for land at Whittington, Spetchley and Tolladine in North Claines, for 30 hides (manentes) at Weogorena-leage (Hallow), and for 25 hides at Chaddesley Corbett, Worcs., in return for 14 hides at Sture. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. Lost original
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 1rv (s. xi1)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 172v-173v (s. xi2; shortened)
4. BL Cotton Vitell. C. ix, 129v (s. xvii; incomplete; ex 1)
5. BL Harley 4660, 5rv (s. xvii; ex 1)
Printed: Hickes, Inst. Gramm,, pp. 173-4, from MS 1; Hearne, Heming, pp. 1-3 from MS 2, pp. 381-3 from MS 3, p. 556 from MS 4; K 210; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 588 (no. 15); HS, pp. 585-6; B 357; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 117; Pierquin, Conciles, pp. 459-60.
Translated: Jones 1958, pp. 75-6.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 696 n. 37, cited; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, genuine, model for S 181 (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Stenton 1971, pp. 284, 493, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 242 and pp. 184-6, authentic; Finberg 1972, p. 463, cited; Hooke 1980, p. 41, on topography; Hooke 1990, pp. 113-15, on bounds and estate; Cubitt 1995, p. 285, probably authentic; Baker and Holt 1996, p. 138.
A.D. 817. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his cathedral clergy at Worcester; grant of privileges for land at Salwarpe, Hampton Lovett, Beolne (Bell Hall in Belbroughton), Broughton and Fairfield in Belbroughton, Worcs. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 199v-200r (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 449-50; K 212; B 360; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 119.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, cited; Stenton 1918, p. 445 n. 57, probably forged on the basis of S 180 (= Stenton 1970, p. 59 n. 3); Finberg, ECWM, no. 243, authentic; Hooke 1990, p. 94; Foot 1992, p. 191 n. 148, on formula.
A.D. 817. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and the church of Worcester; grant of 3 hides (mansiones) at Sluhforda on the west bank of the Stour, Worcs. Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MS: BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 171rv (s. xi2)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, pp. 378-9; K 211; B 359; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 118.
Comments: Finberg, ECWM, no. 244, authentic; Hooke 1990, p. 94.
A.D. 821. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Abingdon Abbey; grant of privileges for land at Culham, Oxon.; Kennington, Hinksey, Cumnor, Earmundelæh (cf. Bessels Leigh), Eaton, Sunningwell, Dry Sandford, Wootton, Ginge, Denchworth, Charney (Bassett), Goosey, Fernham, Watchfield, Shrivenham, Bourton, Leckhampstead, Boxford, Welford and Wickham in Welford, Berks., with woodland at Speen, Poughley (in Chaddleworth), Trindlæh (lost), and Easton (in Welford), Berks. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Claud. B. vi, 9v-10r (s. xiii)
2. BL Cotton Claud. C. ix, 107rv (s. xii)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 100; K 214; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 513-14 (no. 5); Stevenson, Chron. Abingdon, i. 25-7; Thorpe, pp. 63-4; B 366; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 120; Morris 1995, pp. 151-2, ex B 366; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 9 ex MSS 1, 2.
Comments: Stenton 1913, p. 23, spurious; Aston 1958, p. 76, on gebura tun; PN Oxon., i. 150; PN Berks., i. 233, 238, 254, 266, 272, 274, ii. 290, 352, 371, 375, 382, 389, 393, 402, 411, 438, 443, 445, 450, 453, 459, 462, 469, 472; Gelling, ECTV, no. 18 (pp. 26-7, 125), authentic basis, citing Brooks 'more likely to be the work of a pre-Conquest than a 12th-century forger'; Keynes 1980, p. 11 n. 14, spurious; Fleming 1985, p. 252, cited; Wormald 1985, p. 117 n., diplomatically suspect; Pelteret 1986, pp. 481-2, on gebura tun; Edwards 1988, pp. 189-93, spurious, but based on authentic charter of Coenwulf; Dumville 1992, p. 40 n. 55, spurious; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 9, spurious in present form but may be based on genuine 9th-century privilege.
A.D. 821. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Abingdon Abbey; grant of 15 hides (mansae) at Culham, Oxon., with pasture at Otney (near Sutton Courtenay), Berks. Latin.
Archive: Abingdon.
MSS: 1. Chatsworth, 71 E, 134v (s. xiv)
2. PRO Ch.R. 10 Edw. III, no. 30
3. PRO Pat. R. 4 Ric. II, pt 1, m. 16
4. PRO Pat. R 1 Hen. VI, pt 5, mm. 8, 7a
5. PRO Pat. R. 8 Edw. IV, pt 3, mm. 5, 4
6. PRO Pat. R. 8 Edw. IV, pt3 3, mm. 5, 4
7. Bodleian, Dodsworth 10, 13r (s. xvii; incomplete)
8. Bodleian, Lyell 15, 45v-46r (s. xiv; ex Inspeximus 10 Edw. III)
9. Bodleian, Lyell 15, 160r-162r (s. xiv; ex Inspeximus 10 Edw. III)
10. Oxford, Corpus Christi College, 255, 65r-66r (s. xvi)
Printed: Mon. Angl., i. 101, ex MS 2; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 514 (no. 7); Cal. Ch. R., iv. 373-4 ex MS 2; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 10 ex MS 2
Comments: Cal. Ch. R., iv. 374, spurious; Select Cases 1461-1509, p. 121; Gelling, ECTV, no. 263, spurious, forger used some pre-Conquest material; Edwards 1988, pp. 187-9, 10th-century fabrication; Lambrick and Slade, Abingdon Cartularies, i. 85, 336, ii. 288, and cf. i. 350-1; Kelly, Abingdon, no. 10, fabrication, probably of early 13th century, based in part on S 268 and S 460.
A.D. 798 x 821, probably 814. Coenwulf, king of Mercia, to Deneberht, bishop, and his familia at Worcester; grant of the reversion of 30 hides (tributarii) at Fladbury, Worcs., after his own death Latin.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Add. 46204 verso (s. xi)
2. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 11r (s. xi1)
Printed: Hearne, Heming, p. 25; K 215; B 368; Stevenson 1911, p. 204; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 124.
Comments: Stevenson 1914, p. 698 n. 44, authentic; Finberg, ECWM, no. 241, authentic, it is really a postscript to S 172; Hooke 1990, p. 95; Sims-Williams 1990, pp. 132-3.
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