A.D. 822 (Bydictun, 17 September). Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 5 sulungs (aratra) at Mylentun, near Kemsing, Kent, in return for a gold ring worth 75 mancuses. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 93 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 15)
Short version
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 198v (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. C, 203r (s. xv)
4. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 18r (s. xii)
5. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 316 (s. xiii)
6. Bodleian, James 24, p. 95 (s. xvii; extract)
7. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 12v-13r (s. xvi)
Printed: Full text
K 216; HS, pp. 589-90; Thorpe, pp. 65-6; B 370; Earle, pp. 100-2; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 122; Pierquin, Conciles, p. 462.
Short versionTwysden, X Scriptores, col. 2216 ex MS 2; B 371 ex MS 5; Fleming 1997, p. 124 (no. 26) ex MS 4.
Translated: Whitelock, EHD, no. 83 (pp. 514-16).
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 458 (no. 55); Stevenson 1914, p. 692 n. 16, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 450, original, discusses royal style (= Stenton 1970, p. 64); Stenton 1955, p. 40, on poor latinity; Box 1931, pp. 120-2, on bounds; Wallenberg, KPN, pp. 141-5, on place-names; Parsons 1939, p. 14, MS 1 genuine and contemporary; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; John 1966, p. 107 n., original, discusses immunity clause; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Chaplais 1968, p. 325, on indiction (= 1973, p. 75); Brooks 1971, p. 73 n. 4, on immunity; Stenton 1971, p. 292, cited; Finberg 1972, pp. 410, 499; Harrison 1973, p. 64, on date; Harrison 1976, p. 115, on date; Witney 1976, p. 228, on swine-pastures; Sawyer 1978, pp. 181, 187, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 514; Brooks 1984, pp. 135-6, on historical background, pp. 168, 360 n. 70, scribe of MS 1 perhaps Archbishop Wulfred himself, also wrote S 187; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Campbell 1989, p. 27, on counter-payment; Keynes 1993, pp. 114-15, 119, cited.
A.D. 823 (Werburgingwic, 26 May). Ceolwulf, king of Mercia and Kent, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of land in Canterbury, in return for a gold and silver vessel of 5.5 pounds. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 75 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 16)
Short version
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 198v (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 18r (s. xii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 318 (s. xiii)
5. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 13r (s. xvi)
Printed: Full text
K 217; B 373; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 123.
Short versionTwysden, X Scriptores, col. 2216 ex MS 2; B 374 ex MS 4; Fleming 1997, p. 124 (no. 28) ex MS 3.
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 458 (no. 56); Stevenson 1914, p. 699 n. 48, contemporary; Stenton 1918, p. 450, original (= Stenton 1970, p. 64); Wallenberg, KPN, p. 145, on place-names; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 24-6, MS 1 genuine and contemporary, note on dorse is a scribal memorandum, written before folding; Bruckner 1965, p. 29, on script; Ch.L.A., iv, p. xviii, on script; Brooks 1971, p. 73 n. 4; Brooks 1984, p. 136, on background, pp. 168, 360 n. 70, scribe perhaps Archbishop Wulfred himself, also wrote S 186; Brown 1986, pp. 128-9, on script; Campbell 1989, p. 28, on counter-payment; Dumville 1992, p. 4 n. 17, original; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 114-15, 119.
A.D. 831 (Wychbold, Worcs.). Wiglaf, king of Mercia, to Wulfred, archbishop; grant of 5 hides (cassati) at Botwell in Hayes, Middx. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Canterbury, Christ Church
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 94 (s. ix1; BM Facs., ii. 20; Brown 1996, p. 208, fig. 24)
Short version
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 189, 198v (s. xii)
3. Canterbury, D. & C., Reg. P, 18v (s. xii)
4. London, Lambeth Palace, 1212, p. 318 (s. xiii)
5. Bodleian, James 24, p. 95 (s. xvii; extract)
6. Bodleian, Tanner 223, 13r (s. xvi)
Printed: Twysden, X Scriptores, col. 2216 ex MS 2; K 227 ex MS 1; B 400 ex MS 1; B 401 ex MS 4; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, no. 134; Fleming 1997, p. 125 (no. 30) ex MS 3.
Comments: Sweet, OET, p. 460 (no. 59); Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 24-5, MS 1 original, contemporary endorsement is a scribal memorandum; PN Middx, pp. 37, 39, 40, 41; Drögereit 1952, pp. 55-6, spurious; Stengel 1960, pp. 71-2, authentic; Stenton 1971, p. 234, contemporary; Harrison 1973, p. 64, on date; Gelling, ECTV, no. 207, original, note on bounds; Sawyer 1983, p. 298, on meeting-place; Brooks 1984, p. 137, on historical background, p. 360 n. 70, original, scribe also wrote S 153, 1268 (witnesses only), 1436, 1482 (main text only); Brown 1986, p. 129, on script; Keynes 1993/1, pp. 115, 123, cited; Bailey 1996, pp. 69-71, on estate.
A.D. 833. Wiglaf, king of Mercia, to Siward, abbot of Crowland, and the abbey of Crowland; confirmation and grant of privileges and of land at Bucknall, Hallington, Gernthorp, Langtoft, Deeping, Baston, Rippingale, Lincs.; Sutton, Stapleton, Leics., Badby, Northants.; Holbeach, Whaplode, Spalding, Drayton, Lincs.; Glapthorn, Peakirk, Northants.; Laythorpe, Kirkby, Lincs.; Standon, Herts.; and at Addington, Northants. Latin with bounds.
Archive: Crowland.
MSS: 1. BL Arundel 178, 31v-32v (s. xvi)
2. BL Lansdowne 207 c, 101v-107r (s. xvii)
3. Oxford, All Souls College, 32, 2r-4r (s. xv)
Printed: Savile, Ingulph, pp. 855-8; Mon. Angl.,i. 165-7; Alford 1663, iii. 48-50; Fulman 1684, pp. 8-11 ex MS 1; Wilkins, Concilia, i. 176-8; K 233; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), ii. 109 (no. 8); Thorpe, pp. 81-7; Birch, Ingulf, pp. 13-18 ex MS 1; B 409.
Comments: Riley 1862, p. 37, forged; Searle 1894, pp. 167-8; Roffe 1995, pp. 104-8, post-Conquest fabrication, discusses background to forgery.
A.D. 836 (Croft, Leics.). Wiglaf, king of Mercia, to the minster at Hanbury, Worcs.; grant of privileges in return for the surrender to the king of 20 hides at Iddeshale (? Idsall, Salop.), land at Hæccaham (? Hanbury, Worcs.), 10 hides at Felda by Weoduman (? in Beanhall in Feckenham, Worcs.), and in return for the grant of 10 hides at Crowle, Worcs., to Mucel (ealdorman), son of Esne, and a gift of 600 shillings in gold to Ealdorman Sigered. Latin with English.
Archive: Worcester
MSS: 1. BL Cotton Aug. ii. 9 (s. ix1; BM Facs, ii. 24)
2. Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 111, pp. 138-37 [sic] (s. xvi; incomplete)
3. BL Cotton Tib. A. xiii, 21rv (s. xi1; incomplete)
4. Bodleian, Dodsworth 78, 59rv (s. xvii; ex 1)
Printed: Mon. Angl,, i. 123; Hearne, Heming, pp. 47-9; K 237; Mon. Angl. (rev. edn), i. 588-9 (no. 16); Thorpe, pp. 88-90; B 416; Earle, pp. 111-13; Pierquin, Recueil, pt 1, n. 140.
Translated: Jones 1958, pp. 78-80; Whitelock, EHD, no. 85 (pp. 518-19).
Comments: Bond 1878, p. 7, MS 1 is contemporary; Sweet, OET, pp. 453-4 (no. 47); Stenton 1913, p. 25, cited; Stevenson 1914, p. 689 n. 2, p. 692 n. 16, original; Turner 1916, p. xxxix, citing Stevenson, genuine; Darlington 1936, pp. 425-6; Parsons 1939, pp. 14, 23-5, MS 1 is genuine and contemporary; Stenton 1971, pp. 233-4, original, p. 289, cited; Finberg, ECWM, no. 247, authentic, suggests identifications of Haeccaham and Felda on the basis of a contemporary endorsement; Sawyer 1978, p. 121, cited; Whitelock, EHD, p. 518; Keynes 1980, p. 32 n. 52, cited; Wormald 1982, pp. 138-9, original; Sawyer 1983, p. 293, on meeting-place; Fleming 1985, p. 256; PN Shrops., i. 264, queries identification with Idshall, Salop, may be a lost Iddeshale in Worcs.; Kitson 1987, p. 149 n. 11, on endorsement; Hooke 1990, pp. 97-8, queries identification of Beanhall; Sims-Williams 1990, p. 107, original; Keynes 1993/1, p. 124, cited; Cubitt 1995, p. 287, pp. 313-14, on Croft; Lapidge 1996, p. 446, notes on latinity.
Note: In MS 1 there are additions to the text and witness-list in different (contemporary) hands, and several contemporary endorsements by different scribes. In one instance a later scribe (? 10th-century) has tampered with the text to suggest that the grant of land to the king and Ealdorman Mucel was in fact a life-lease on the estates, with reversion to Worcester.
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